Fort Pitt Museum sits within Point State Park, on the ground where two empires once fought to control a continent.

The British built Fort Pitt in the late 1750s after the French blew up their own Fort Duquesne and retreated north. Enormous in scale, with earthen walls clad in red brick and trading posts beyond the gates, it processed 150,000 buckskins in a single year. That word for a dollar, "bucks," traces directly back to those transactions.

The fort was torn down long before Pittsburgh became a city, but the museum preserves what it meant: a chokepoint between colonial powers and a flashpoint in the dispossession of the Delaware, Shawnee and other nations.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use Fort Pitt to trace the collision of empires and Indigenous peoples at the Forks of the Ohio, following ancient trading paths that shaped this land before European flags flew over it.