Pittsburg

English

Proper noun

Pittsburg

  1. (historical) former spelling of Pittsburgh [official until 1911]
    • 1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “I Go to Pittsburg”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 1:
      I never see a shivering, white-faced wretch in the prisoners’ dock that I do not hark back with shuddering horror to the strange events on the Pullman car Ontario, between Washington and Pittsburg, on the night of September ninth, last.
  2. Any of various towns in the USA or Canada
    1. A city, the county seat of Camp County, Texas.
    2. A city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

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