Category: Chapter News and Events

Ed Grusheski, president of the Oliver Evans chapter since 1996, died December 23, 2020.  Ed contributed to so many programs and institutions in the city yet he always had time for our Oliver Evans Chapter. He led the chapter with grace and spirit despite several major health setbacks in recent years. He was a gallant,…

While there were many hat manufactories in Philadelphia in the 19th and 20th centuries, one of the lone survivors into the 21st century was the S & S Hat Company. At the time it was founded in 1923, it was housed in a factory on Filbert Street between 10th and 11th Streets. It supplied department…

Saturday, January 25, 2020 Geography, Geology and Genius: How Coal & Canals Ignited the American Industrial Revolution, an illustrated presentation on her new book by author Martha Capwell Fox, Archives & Museum Coordinator, National Canal Museum, Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, PA Martha Capwell Fox is in charge of maintaining the Museum’s collection…

  OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER presents 30th Annual Wright Stuff Film Fest presented by Martha Capwell Fox, Archives & Museum Coordinator, National Canal Museum, Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Easton, PA  Martha Capwell Fox is in charge of maintaining the Museum’s collection of photographs, artifacts, books, films and videos, and historic documents which preserve the history…

Monday, November 4, 2019 American Keg Company is a stainless steel keg manufacturer located in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, USA.  Our American craftsmen manufacture the highest quality 1/2 bbl (15.5 US gallons or 165 12-oz. pours) and 1/6 bbl kegs (5.16 U.S. gallons or 55 12-oz. pours), with pride, for the American Craft Brewer, Cider Maker, and…

presented by Maritime Historian CHRISTIAN RODEN An event hosted by Society for Industrial Archeology – Oliver Evans Chapter together with Delaware Valley Chapter of Steamship Historical Society of America and Independence Seaport Museum  Christian Roden was a Fulbright scholar who spent a year doing research at the French Line archives in LeHavre, France focusing on…

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/  

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…

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…

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…