OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • More than just trains…homage to “workshop of the world”

    Save the Date The Oliver Evans Chapter presents More than just trains…homage to “workshop of the world”A virtual presentation by Ron Hoess, OE Chapter MemberTuesday, January 11, 2022  6:30pm The Zoom link for the program will be sent at a date closer to the time of the presentation Over the last 7 years I have…

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

    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. Formerly the area was filled with machine shops, foundries,…

  • See How the Brooklyn Bridge Was Built

    A Roebling Museum road trip presentation Wednesday, December 1 at 6pm Join us as Author Jeffrey Richman shares a selection of 19th-century images from his new book to explore the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Many of the images have never been published on the printed page before. Mr. Richman’s new book, Building the Brooklyn…

  • AMERICAN INDEPENDENT INVENTORS IN AN ERA OF CORPORATE R&D

    The Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society presentsAUTHOR TALK: ERIC S. HINTZ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021 AT 7:00 P.M. In person at the Hagley CenterThe program will also be live streamed on Haley’s YouTube channel During the nineteenth century, heroic individual inventors such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell created…

  • 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…