After Wayne”s victory at the battle of the Fallen Timber in 1794
and the signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, which ended
the earlier Indian wars of the Old Northwest and opened for
settlement the country beyond the Ohio, a great migration
followed into Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, and the commercial
activity of Pittsburgh rapidly increased
After Wayne”s victory at the battle of the Fallen Timber in 1794
and the signing of the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, which ended
the earlier Indian wars of the Old Northwest and opened for
settlement the country beyond the Ohio, a great migration
followed into Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, and the commercial
activity of Pittsburgh rapidly increased. By 1800 a score of
profitable industries had arisen, and by 1803 the first bar-iron
foundry was, to quote the advertisement of its owner,
’sufficiently upheld by the hand of the Almighty’ to supply in
part the demand for iron and castings. Glass factories were
established, and ropewalks, sail lofts, boatyards, anchor
smithies, and brickyards, were soon ready to supply the rapidly
increasing demands of the infant cities and the countryside on
the lower Ohio. When the new century arrived the Pittsburgh
district had a population of upwards of two thousand.
