How To Claim Your Stake in The Wilds of Early Pennsylvania

Join us at the Fort Pitt Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, as we welcome Prentiss Orr as part of the 2025 Fort Pitt Speaker Saturdays. An award-winning writer, editor, and publisher, Prentiss is known for his insightful storytelling and strategic creativity in communications and branding. This presentation is included with regular museum admission.

Thousands after thousands of pioneers drove westward to claim their own piece of heaven in the wilds of early America. How was it that homesteaders claimed their land? What was the legal process? And how was it that land speculators, like Robert Morris, John Nicholson, and George Washington, glommed onto hundreds of thousands of acres with the expectation of earning staggering profits?