OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • How It Works: The Morris Canal

    National Museum of Industrial History  presents June 30th 2:00 to 4:00 For June’s special How It Works tour Mike Helbing will lead a talk and tour about New Jersey’s Morris Canal. The waterway was built in the 1820s and 1830s, eventually connecting the Lehigh Valley to the New York Harbor. Anthracite coal, iron, and other goods shipped…

  • Mill Creek to Sewer

    Mill Creek Sewer, ca. 1883, at 47th Street and Haverford Avenue in West Philadelphia. The effort to encapsulate and bury Mill Creek in a 21-foot (6.4 m) sewer pipe ran from 1869 to 1894 June 25th, 6:30 pm Adam Levine, historian at the Philadelphia Water Department, will talk on the fascinating history of Mill Creek,…

  • Reminder

    PROGRAM, ANNUAL MEETING & PICNIC Monday, June 24, 2019 Please join our Chapter for the Picnic this coming Monday.  E-mail Helen, treasurer, with your intention at hschenck@princeton.edu  so that we can order enough food. Full information on the website: https://siaoliverevans.wordpress.com/category/chapter-news-and-events/  

  • OLIVER EVANS PROGRAM, ANNUAL MEETING & PICNIC

    Monday, June 24, 2019 Adventures in Steam Locomotion A school teacher by day, in his free time Tom Gears is a steam locomotive engineer at Wilmington & Western RR in Delaware and has been working with steam-powered equipment since 1981. For the last 15 years he’s been all over the world chasing down the last…

  • 115-ton Corliss steam engine comes alive

    National Museum Of Industrial History May 31st – June 2nd For over a decade NMIH has been working on a big project, and it’s finally ready to debut. Join us May 31st through June 2nd as we reveal our operational Corliss steam engine, meticulously restored by a dedicated group of volunteers, local companies, and NMIH…

  • Tour of Independent Record Pressing Co.

    DATE: Thursday, May 23, 2019 TIME: Optional Lunch – Noon       Tour – 1:30PM LOCATION: Optional Lunch – Mastoris diner, 144 Rt. 130, Bordentown, NJ                         Tour: IRP Co. – 300 Bordentown-Hedding Rd., Bordentown, NJ  The Independent Record Pressing Co. presses 12-inch vinyl records in…

  • You Are Invited…

    Society for Industrial Archeology OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER are invited as guests of the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center Reception, Exhibition and Film Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 Time: 5:00PM – 6:30PM Join us for a reception for the current Bicentennial exhibition about the Manayunk and Fairmount Canals, curated by Sandy Sorlien of the FWWIC. Enjoy…

  • Underground Philadelphia: From Caves and Canals to Tunnels and Transit

    Monday, April 8, 2019 speakers and authors Harry Kyriakodis and Joel Spivak Philadelphia’s relationship with the underground is as old as the city itself, dating back to when Quaker settlers resided in caves alongside the Delaware River more than three hundred years ago. The City of Brotherly Love later became a national and world leader…

  • 200 Years of Water: The Manayunk Canal 1819-2019

    Hosted by Manayunk Canal Bicentennial 2019 and Fairmount Water Works Wednesday March 13 at 6 PM to 7:30 Venice Island Performing Arts & Recreation Center Free and open to the public, no registration required. To celebrate the Bicentennial of the Manayunk Canal, which opened in March 1819, Fairmount Water Works presents a free Speakers Forum…

  • THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD IN THE LOWER SCHUYLKILL VALLEY

    The Schuylkill River Heritage Center presents a talk by David Messer, a celebrated author of many books about railroads Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 7:30 PM The Foundry at The Schuylkill River Heritage Center 2 N Main Street, Phoenixville, PA Admission is Free and no registration is required. http://www.phoenixvillefoundry.org/