Description Pittsburg was purposely located in the center of the Cherokee-Crawford coal field of southeastern Kansas in 1876.
Little did the founders anticipate how quickly Pittsburg would become the dominant city in the rapidly industrialized southeastern corner of Kansas and one of the most populous cities i.
The city\'s founders intended for the new mining camp to serve as a convenient shipping point for the tons of bituminous coal that would be extracted from the region.
Description Pittsburg was purposely located in the center of the Cherokee-Crawford coal field of southeastern Kansas in 1876