Fort Pitt

Fort Pitt may refer to:

  • Fort Pitt (Pennsylvania), on the site of present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States
  • Fort Pitt, Kent, in the United Kingdom
  • Fort Pitt (Saskatchewan), a trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada
  • Fort Pitt (Amtrak), a former train operated by Amtrak between Pittsburgh and Altoona in Pennsylvania

Famous quotes containing the words fort and/or pitt:

    “The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the “Monied Interest;” I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself “the friend of government.””
    —William, Earl Of Pitt (1708–1778)