OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • Flying Dutchman” airport in Somerton

    The next meeting of the Northeast Philadelphia History Network will be Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 7:00 PM at historic Pennepack Baptist Church, 8732 Krewstown Road 19115 Philadelphia, in Bustleton. In honor of Black History Month, the topic will be Emory Conrad Malick (1881-1958), the first licensed African American aviator. Malick received his international pilot’s…

  • Final 747 US commercial flight

    This is a timely addition to the annals of air flight presented to OE members who attended the chapter’s annual dinner. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/business/747-airlines-final-flight.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

  • Transportation Topic

    Philadelphia exploded in violence in 1910. The general strike that year claimed the lives of some two dozen people and made Philadelphia a prominent point in the tumultuous national conflict over workers’ rights. That strike was a notable point, but not a unique one, in the history of Philadelphia’s transit system. In this presentation, author…

  • The Pencil Lives!

    Who knew it took so many different materials, machines and processes to produce the pencil?. This article vividly captures the process in words and pictures, depicting people and production at General Pencil Company in Jersey City. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html

  • Lumber Yard on East Girard

    OSCAR BEISERT has a piece on the HIdden City website on the loss of industrial character of Northern Liberties by the proposed redevelopment of the JT Lumber yard. The article also discusses a number of 19th century lumber businesses and their interconnections. I thank OE member Marc Zaharchuk for bringing the changes at the yard…

  • Weather forecast good for Annual Dinner

    The long-term weather forecast is in, and Friday the 19th looks good: well above freezing with little or no precipitation. If you’ve been considering going to the Oliver Evans Chapter SIA annual dinner at the Desmond Hotel in Malvern that evening, but were worried about conditions, you’ve been granted a reprieve by the weather and…

  • Philadelphia’s Hog Island Shipyard: History, Impact and Legacy

    Monday, February 5, 2018, speaker, Jim Rubillo Hog Island is the historic name of an area southeast of Tinicum Township along the Delaware River, to the west of the mouth of the Schuylkill River. Philadelphia International Airport now sits on the land that was once Hog Island. In 1917, as part of the World War…

  • World’s Weirdest and Most Amazing Bridges

    By Stephanie Valera November 01 2016 05:45 PM EDT Weather.com Bridges are some of the world’s most magnificent marvels of engineering, connecting cities and even countries. But bridges have also featured some of the most innovative design. According to a Transportation Research Board Special Report on the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on U.S. Transportation,…

  • Annual Dinner & Program, Friday, January 19, 2018

    Main Line Airport An Illustrated Lecture by Roger D. Thorne, Board Chairman, Tredyffrin-Easttown Historical Society The Great Valley of Chester County, PA, once an agricultural breadbasket dating back to Colonial times, is today shared by up-scale residential housing and one of America’s leading high-technology corridors. But few realize that for a half century, within what…

  • John Grass Wood-turning shop comes to sad end

    Christopher Storb in his blog, In Proportion to the Trouble, has provided a final look at this location that was researched by chapter members Jane Mork Gibson and John Bowie. Their partial report is linked in Storb’s page as Historical Background by Jane Mork Gibson. It shows the amount of research professional historians and architects…