The Society for Industrial Archeology.
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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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Looking Back At The Unbuilt Red Bank Bridge Proposal In South Philadelphia
Philadelphia-Red Bank Bridge. Image via Courier Post, March 27, 1926 article BY: THOMAS KOLOSKI 7:30 AM ON JULY 19, 2021 In the 1920s, Philadelphia was…
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Society for Industrial Archeology
49th Annual Conference August 23-27, 2021 Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania The Anthracite Heritage Museum, National Museum of Industrial History (NMIH), and the National Canal Museum, a…
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The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses
In the mid-20th century, colleagues-turned-rivals Maria Telkes and Hoyt Hottel engineered new ways of heating American homes. An article from Distillations, produced by The Science…
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The Lehigh Navigation: How a Waterway Changed the Nation
Martha Capwell Fox A presentation of the Pennsylvania Canal Society Tuesday June 15, 2021 7:00 – 8:00 PM (30 minutes of presentation followed by 30…
● 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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