Author: Muriel K, Veep

Philadelphia’s Vacant Budd Plant Becomes a Biomanufacturing Center Aug 6, 2021 https://www.inquirer.com/business/biotech-lab-manufacturing-budd-plant-20210809.html A facility that once fabricated metal products for the automotive and transportation industry central to a bygone era of Philadelphia’s economy, has found a new life as a biomanufacturing center, a key industry for the city’s economic future.The Plymouth Group, which owns the…

A 1926 photo of the quarry | Source: Milestone Heritage Consulting Yorktown, New York Saturday, November 6th, 10:30 AM A Program of the SIA Roebling Chapter From 1890 to 1941, the abandoned and long forgotten Mohegan Quarry was a major industry in Yorktown and a major New York State supplier of granite for buildings, including…

Wednesday, October 20 at 3 p.m.  Join the SIA for the 14th session of IA Online Eastern (US & Canada): David Farrier – “An extant cotton gin from the Albany Agricultural Works” Jerry Miller – “North Central Ohio Industrial Museum Featuring Inventor of Over 200 Patents, Harry F. Smith of Lexington OH”  Register to…

September 3, 2021 – October 10, 2021 The  Neon Museum of Philadelphia presents An Exhibit of Larry Handy’s Amazing Breweriana You may know of Philly’s Brewerytown – a neighborhood named after the extensive history of breweries in the area – but do you know just how deep the citywide beer history of Philadelphia runs? We…

Friday – Sunday October 1 – 3, 2021 Canal Society of Ohio Joint Tour With the Pennsylvania Canal Society and with participation of the Northern Ohio Chapter Society of Industrial Archeology – Pittsburgh Riverboat Tour A tour of Pittsburgh’s three rivers will be aboard the Rivers of Steel Explorer Riverboat on Saturday.  Boat staff will…

A virtual presentation by the Center for Brooklyn History Sept 1, 2021 6:30-7:30 PM On May 24, 1883 New Yorkers and Brooklynites gathered to celebrate an engineering miracle: the long-anticipated opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. Jeffrey Richman’s new book, “Building the Brooklyn Bridge: 1869-1883,” tells the story of the bridge’s construction in over 250 images,…

Image Source: https://www.roeblingmuseum.org The Smithsonian Institution announced that it has chosen Roebling Museum to develop an exhibit about work in a steel-making company town founded in 1905. Roebling Museum, which documents the history of a company town built by suspension bridge engineers John A. Roebling’s Sons Co., is one of five museums nationwide to participate…

Philadelphia-Red Bank Bridge. Image via Courier Post, March 27, 1926 article BY: THOMAS KOLOSKI 7:30 AM ON JULY 19, 2021 In the 1920s, Philadelphia was on the rise, with industry and was with business activity bustling across the city. The port was generally busy, the skyline was growing, and as automobiles surged in numbers, the…

49th Annual Conference August 23-27, 2021 Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania The Anthracite Heritage Museum, National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH), and the National Canal Museum, a program of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, invite you to join the Society for Industrial Archeology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which has been rescheduled for August 24-27, 2021.  We…