Haunted Pittsburgh by Timothy Murray

Author:Timothy Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2016-03-05T16:00:00+00:00

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HAUNTED LIBRARIES AND CARNEGIE

ANDREW CARNEGIE AND OAKLAND

We can’t talk about Pittsburgh without talking about steel. Pittsburgh was, for a long time, the steel-making capital of the world, and steel is imprinted on the town’s DNA. Probably no one has ever left his or her mark on Pittsburgh like Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was the second-wealthiest person in the history of the world (after John Rockefeller). In modern dollars, he was worth more than $300 billion. Before Carnegie and his partner Henry Clay Frick were finished, Pittsburgh was producing half the steel in America. Largely because of Carnegie and Frick, one hundred years ago, Pittsburgh’s banks had more money than the banks of any city in America except New York. Before he died, Carnegie was determined to give his money away, so, among many other things, he built music halls and more than twenty-five hundred libraries around the world. And, yes, a fair number of them are haunted. Google the words “Carnegie Library and haunted” and see how many results are found. There are at least three here in Pittsburgh—Oakland, Mount Washington and Lawrenceville. But some of his other namesake buildings are haunted, too.

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