The Society for Industrial Archeology.
OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER
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Bucks County Trolley Lines In person presentation by Mike Szilagyi, AICP, author and historianWednesday, September 9, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 pm Here is the link for people unable to attend in person: https://freelibrary-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jzRAHDU2To2gpnczTJNUDg Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was once served by 120 miles of trolley lines. During the decades spanning the 1890s…
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Tour of Campbell Archives, Camden, NJ
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 10:30 am Campbell Soup Company has been located in Camden, NJ, since 1869, when it started as the canning firm of…
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Rehabbing the Hudson Valley’s First Suspension Bridge
FREE VIRTUAL PROGRAM Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Time: 6-7pm Join us to hear from engineer Blaise Blabac, who is involved in preserving a Roebling suspension…
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High Water: An Informal History of Flooding in Philadelphia
a lecture by Adam Levine When a city is built along a river—and Philadelphia is wedged between two, the Schuylkill and the Delaware—floods are an…
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Oat Foundry, makers of Split Flap Displays
Society for Industrial Archeology Oliver Evans Chapter presents a Tour of Oat Foundry DATE: Thursday, April 20, 2023 TIME: 11 AM Oat Foundry began in 2013…
● About US
The SIA’s emphasis on archeology reflects a concern for the tangible evidence of early industry. Our mission is the study, interpretation, and preservation of the surviving factories, machinery, bridges, canals, industrial communities and artifacts that are historically significant.
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