OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • The Industrial and Neighborhood History around Matthias Baldwin Park, Philadelphia

    The Oliver Evans Chapter presents“The Industrial and Neighborhood History around Matthias Baldwin Park”A talk by Joe Walsh, vice president of the Friends of Matthias Baldwin Park  Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:30 – 8:30 Matthias Baldwin Park is a two-acre Philadelphia city park at 423 North 19th Street. The Friends post a monthly hyperlocal history article…

  • What’s Joel Doing?

    South Street Museum Opening 523 S. 4th St. – Phila. PA 19147 The Museum is a collection of artifacts from the South Street Renaissance as it happened from1962 to the present including a history of the neighborhood. The Museum will be open: Saturday December 4,  2021  2 until 6 Saturday Dec. 11, 2021  12 until…

  • The Industrial Archaeology of the West Point Foundry

    Join the SIA for the 15th session of IA Online Wednesday, November 10 at 8 p.m. Eastern (US & Canada) T. Arron Kotlensky & Steve Walton – “Where Archaeology and History Collide: The Industrial Archaeology of the West Point Foundry” The establishment of the foundry was encouraged by President James Madison, who, after the War…

  • Alchemy Illuminated: The Art of Crafting from Trash

    Oliver Evans chapter member Joel Spivak is exhibiting at the Neon Museum in Northern Liberties. He is a member of  the Philadelphia Dumpster Divers , a found object art collective formed 29 years ago Grand Opening this Weekend! Friday, November 5th4pm-8pmFirst Friday soft opening of the exhibit Saturday, November 6th12pm-5pmGrand opening with the Dumpster Divers…

  • Former Budd Plant, Nicetown, Philadelphia

    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…

  • Tour of the Mohegan Granite Quarry site

    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…

  • National SIA Online Programs

    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…

  • Philadelphia: City of Breweries

    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…

  • SIA and Canal Society tour in Pittsburgh, Pa

    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…

  • How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built: A Visual History

    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,…