{{Infobox company | name = Fort Pitt Foundry | image = | type = Private | foundation = 1804 | location = Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | area_served = | key_people = Joseph and Alex McClurg | industry = Foundry | products = Cannons and cannonballs for the U.S. military }}
The '''Fort Pitt Foundry''' was a nineteenth-century iron foundry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was originally established at Fifth Avenue and Smithfield Street in 1804 by Joseph McClurg, grandfather of Joseph W. McClurg, and his son Alex McClurg, father of bookseller and general Alexander C. McClurg. It was later moved to the area of Pittsburgh now known as the Strip District at 12th and Etna. It was an early producer of ordnance for the United States, and manufactured cannonballs for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's forces in the War of 1812. It was best known for the manufacture of large cannon.<ref>{{cite journal |title=A Great Cannon Foundry |journal=Scientific American |year=1864 |issue=September 10 |page=165 |url= https://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?frames=1&coll=moa&view=50&root=%2Fmoa%2Fscia%2Fscia1011%2F&tif=00169.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABF2204-1011-13}}</ref> One of the largest was a 20 inch bore Rodman Gun, a large black powder, smoothbore, muzzle-loading coastal defense gun.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Donald B. Webster, Jr. |date=July–August 1962 |title=Rodman's Great Guns |journal=Ordnance: The Journal of the Army Ordnance Association |issue=July–August |url=http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/strip/strip_n41.html |access-date=2008-07-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704200115/http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/strip/strip_n41.html |archive-date=2008-07-04 }} </ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=A Twenty-Inch Gun; Casting at the Fort Pitt Foundry |journal=The New York Times |year=1864 |issue=Feb. 21 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1864/02/21/90528150.pdf |access-date=2008-11-14 }}</ref>
The foundry was closed after the Civil War ended.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Simpson |first1= Edward |author-link1= Edward Simpson (navy officer) |others= United States. Gun Foundry Board |title= Report of the Gun Foundry Board, February 16, 1884 |url= https://archive.org/details/cu31924030759785|quote= Dahlgren Fort Pitt Foundry. |year= 1885 |publisher= Govt. Print. Off.|oclc= 5228492 |page= [https://archive.org/details/cu31924030759785/page/n44 39] |author2= Simpson, Edward}}</ref> It was eventually sold to a rival in 1878.<ref>{{cite news |title= Fort Pitt foundry known for 'monster' weapons |author= Carl Prine |newspaper= Pittsburgh Tribune-Review |date= July 13, 2008 |url= http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/specialreports/250-anniversary/s_577415.html }}{{dead link|date=October 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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