OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • 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,…

  • Roebling Museum Selected by Smithsonian to Create Exhibit on American Workers

    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…