Pittsburgh's Lost Outpost: Captain Trent's Fort

The location of the Trent's post isn't known with any degree of accuracy. I've attached a few photos of the confluence of the Monongahela (aka, the "Mon) and the Allegheny Rivers. Where they merge is the beginning of the Ohio River. Trent's was probably very close to the "point" as it's known in SW Pa. Within a decade it was the site of the French constructed Fort Duquesne and then Fort Pitt y 1800, the area was built over and part of the downtown Pittsburgh area. Traces of Trent's and the French fort are long gone. The area where Fort Pitt stood still has a brick blochouse/store room built during Colonel Henry Bouquet's time there, and the remains of one of the southern bastions.

The area where Fort Pitt and the two previous posts stood can be seen in the modern photo where the green area is at the confluence of the two rivers. There is an earlier photo taken circa 1930, showing the presence of large brick storage buildings built there and later removed in the middle of the last century to create the modern day "Point State Park" located there. Archaeological remains of previous parts of the fort have been located. The point is relatively low lying and has been frequently inundated under several feet of water over the years since the mid-1750s, until flood control systems built during the 1920's-30's stabilized river levels and have limited flooding of the downtown area. The flooding has been severe enough, combined with early residential, followed by commercial development, that artefacts from the mid-18th century area are very rare.