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Heinz Field is a stadium located at Exit 2B of Interstate 279 and the terminus of "Expressway" 65 on the North Shore of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It primarily serves as the home to the Pittsburgh Steelers and University of Pittsburgh Panthers American football teams, members of the National Football League (NFL) and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) respectively. It hosted the 2011 NHL Winter Classic between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals on January 1st 2011. The stadium opened in 2001, after the controlled implosion of the teams' previous stadium, Three Rivers Stadium. The stadium is named for locally based H. J. Heinz Company, which purchased the naming rights in 2001.

Funded in conjunction with PNC Park and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, the US$281 million stadium stands along the Ohio River, on the Northside of Pittsburgh in the North Shore neighborhood. The stadium was designed with the city of Pittsburgh's history of steel production in mind, which led to the inclusion of 12,000 tons of steel into the design.[8] Ground for the stadium was broken in June 1999 and the first football game was hosted in September 2001. The stadium's natural grass surface has been criticized throughout its history, but Steelers ownership has kept the grass after lobbying from players and coaches. Attendance for the 65,050 seat stadium has sold out for every Steelers home game, a streak which dates back to 1972 (a year before local telecasts of home games were permitted in the NFL). A collection of memorabilia from the Steelers and Panthers of the past can be found in the Coca-Cola Great Hall

Fort Lafayette, sometimes called Fort Fayette, (1792—1814) was an American fort in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

It was sited near present-day Penn Avenue and Ninth Street in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh.

Following the American Revolutionary War, hostilities continued between the Indians and Americans in Western Pennsylvania. In 1784 the new federal government mounted a failed expedition against the Indians. Again in 1790 and 1791 two successive campaigns also failed.

This perceived threat prompted the government in 1792 to build Fort Lafayette in Pittsburgh, to replace Fort Pitt, as a supply center for Fort McIntosh, located down stream on the Ohio River. An army led by General Anthony Wayne eventually defeated in 1794 the Ohio Indians near modern Toledo, Ohio at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, thus ending tensions in the region.

In 1803 Fort Lafayette was a staging ground for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The fort later served as Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's supply base during the War of 1812. The army abandoned the fort in 1814.

The Fort Pitt Blockhouse (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse[6] or Bouquet's Redoubt[7]) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh. It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania,[8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".[9]
The Fort Pitt Blockhouse was constructed in 1764 to address weaknesses in Fort Pitt's original design. Fort Pitt had been completed in 1761 and survived a difficult siege in 1763 during Pontiac's Rebellion. One of the problems with the design of the fort which came to light during the siege was that none of its bastions were effective at repelling snipers.[10] In response to this weakness, Henry Bouquet initiated the construction of a small number[note 1] of redoubts for sharpshooters in 1764, of which only the Fort Pitt Blockhouse survives.[11]

When Fort Pitt was demolished in 1797, the Blockhouse was left untouched because it did not lie within the fort's walls.[12][11] The structure was converted into a private house at an unknown date. In 1894, philanthropist Mary Schenley presented the deed to the Blockhouse to the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).[13][14] She did this specifically so that the structure might be preserved for future generations: