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2017 January Vol. 25 No. 1
RECENT EVENTS
What We Did in 2016
Bethlehem Steel Revisited
Grand Central Terminal
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Annual Meeting & Tour - January 28, 2017
Organizing The Chapter
UPCOMING EVENTS
Forward Into 2017
2015 September Vol. 24 No. 1
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2015 Roebling Award - Call for Nominations
UPCOMING EVENTS
Chapter Corn Roast - September 19th
Great Falls Symposium - October 24th
Fall Tour Schedule
2014 October Vol. 23 No. 2
RECENT EVENTS
On Tour with the Roebling Chapter
ITEMS OF INTEREST
SS United States
The Iron Hand in the Silk Glove:
The Rise & Demise of Industry in Paterson, NJ
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Don't Be Left Out!!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Oct. 18 - Great Falls Symposium
Fall Tour Schedule
2014 January Vol. 23 No. 1
RECENT EVENTS
The Great Falls Symposium
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Huber Breaker Video
Recent Discovery
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Annual Meeting-January 25, 2014
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tour Preview for 2014
Back to Greystone
2013 August Vol. 22 No. 2
RECENT EVENTS
Places We've Been This Year
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Waterloo Canal Heritage Days
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Great Falls Symposium Call for Papers
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tour Schedule - Summer & Fall 2013
Sept. 7 - Annual Corn Roast
Nov. 16 - Great Falls Symposium
2013 March Vol. 22 No. 1
RECENT EVENTS
RCSIA 2013 Annual Meeting at The Rogers Storage Building
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Watts Campbell Steam Engine Company Under Attack
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Going Digital
UPCOMING EVENTS
Tour Schedule - 2013
Future New York and New Jersey Tours in the Planning Stage
2013 Annual SIA Conference - St. Paul & Minneapolis, MN
2012 December Vol. 21 No. 3
RECENT EVENTS
Great Falls Symposium - 2012
Garner Shipyard Tour
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Rogers Storage Building
Wharton & Northern Railroad
Book Review, Ulster Country, New York: The Architectural History & Guide by William B. Rhoads
CHAPTER BUSINESS
E-Mail Newsletters
UPCOMING EVENTS
Roebling Chapter Annual Meeting
2012 November Vol. 21 No. 2
RECENT EVENTS
Lackawanna Terminal & Hoboken Tour
ITEMS OF INTEREST
New Jersey Transportation History Goes Online
King's Store Wagon Scale Restored
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Great Falls Symposium
2012 July Vol. 21 No. 1
RECENT EVENTS
Barbour Flat Spinning & Dolphin Jute Works
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Royle Machine Works Demolished
NEW JERSEY UPCOMING EVENTS
Industrial Heritage Walks
Waterloo Heritage Days
UPCOMING TOURS AND EVENTS
Historic Speedwell Tour
Annual Corn Roast
National SIA Fall Tour - Utica NY
The Great Falls Symposium
2011 December Vol. 20 No. 4
RECENT EVENTS
Great Falls Symposium-2011
Tour of Paterson's Downtown Commercial Historical District
ITEMS OF INTEREST
New Home for the Great Falls Symposium
Work Continued at Morris Canal Lock 2 East
UPCOMING EVENTS
Roebling Chapter Annual Meeting
2011 November Vol. 20 No. 3
RECENT EVENTS
Corn Roast
Webb Institute Tour and "Steam Coffin" Presentation
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Morris Canal Lock 2 East Restoration Project Gets Underway
The Iron Heritage Trail
NEW JERSEY UPCOMING EVENTS
Industrial Heritage Walks
Waterloo Heritage Days
UPCOMING EVENTS
RCSIA Annual Meeting
2011 September Vol. 20 No. 2
RECENT EVENTS
Muller Boat Works Visit
Modern Art Foundry Tour
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Domino Sugar Plant-Update
Waterloo Mill Back In Operation
NEW JERSEY UPCOMING EVENTS
Industrial Heritage Walks
Waterloo Heritage Days
UPCOMING TOURS AND EVENTS
Webb Institute Tour
The Great Falls Symposium
Splitrock Furnace Tour
2011 June Vol. 20 No. 1
A GREAT TOUR AT LES METALLIERS CHAMPENOIS
UPCOMING TOURS AND EVENTS
Annual Corn Roast
Webb Institute
National SIA Annual Meeting - "The Last Green Valley"
Great Falls Symposium
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Two Book Road Standard
ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2010
VERTICAL URBAN FACTORY TOUR
2010 December Vol. 19 No. 4
GREAT FALLS SYMPOSIUM
CHAPTER EVENTS
2011 Annual Meeting and Les Metalier Champenois Tour
Transit Museum Tour
ADMIRAL’S ROW
2010 November Vol. 19 No. 3
UPCOMING CHAPTER EVENTS
2011 Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting Tour
Vice President Candidate Biography
RECENT EVENTS RECAP
2010 Corn Roast
Brooklyn Navy Yard Tour
Madame Alexander Doll Company Factory Tour
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
IN MEMORIUM
Robert Amson Olmsted
2010 July Vol. 19 No. 2
UPCOMING CHAPTER EVENTS
Madame Alexander Doll Factory
Brooklyn Navy Yard Bus Tour
Green-Wood Cemetery Tour
RECENT EVENTS RECAP
Home Rubber & Star Porcelain
Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler
Aero Nav Laboratories
Hall of Fame Tour
Lite Brite Neo Tour
NEW JERSEY NEWS
19th Century Artifact Found
GREAT FALLS SYMPOSIUM: Announcement
OTHER EVENTS
Industrial Heritage Walks
2010 March Vol. 19 No. 1
CHAPTER EVENTS
LiteBrite Neon
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans
Maritime Industry Museum at Fort Schuyler
Home Rubber Company
Aero Nav Laboratories, Inc.
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Roebling Chapter Symposium 2010
Historic Preservation Committee Report
29th Annual Drew Symposium
Central Railroad of New Jersey Station
2009 in Review
OTHER EVENTS
Industrial Heritage Walks
2009 December Vol. 18 No. 5
CHAPTER EVENTS
2010 Annual Meeting
Vice President Candidate Bio
Roebling Chapter Website
2010 Dues
2009 October Vol. 18 No. 4
CHAPTER EVENTS
Exploring the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay and Shooters Island: A 3- Hour NY-NJ Harbor Cruise
Webb Institute of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Glen Cove, NY.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - CHAPTER OFFICERS
WANTED: Chapter Vice President Candidate
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE REPORT
IRT Powerhouse Update
Dumbo Tower Approved
Pier 15
WANTED: New Historic Preservation Committee Chair
2009 August Vol. 18 No. 3
CHAPTER EVENTS
Annual RCSIA Corn Roast and Pre-roast Hike to the Bull Hill Quarry
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Roebling Chapter Email Lists
OTHER IA EVENTS
SIA Fall Tour – Kingston, NY
2009 June Vol. 18 No. 2
CHAPTER EVENTS
Lecture: "NY: The Port of Many Ports: Hoboken's Piece of the Pie."
D. Maldari & Sons, Maker of Pasta Extrusion Dies, Brooklyn, NY.
Green-Wood Cemetery: The Industrialists and Inventors, Brooklyn, NY.
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Board meeting minutes, 10 March 09
Historic Preservation Committee Report
ARTICLE
The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge: The soon-to-be "Walkway Over the Hudson".
OBITUARY
Isabel Emerich
2009 March Vol. 18 No. 1
CHAPTER EVENTS
Walk Through Industrial Passaic, NJ.
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2009 Annual Meeting
2008 Year in Review
2008 JOHN A. ROEBLING AWARD: Gerald Weinstein
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
OTHER EVENTS
The Society for Industrial Archeology’s 38th Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 December Vol. 17 No. 4
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2009 Annual Meeting: Paterson Museum and United Vacuum Corp. Shop Tour, Paterson, NJ
28th Annual Drew Symposium Summary
OBITUARY
Margot Gayle
2008 September Vol. 17 No. 3
CHAPTER EVENTS
Lake Solitude Dam, Union Forge Ironworks, The TISCO Complex, and Solitude House Museum, High Bridge, NJ
“Willet’s Point” – The Iron Triangle of Queens, NY
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE NEWS
Dam Preservation
TOUR REPORT
The Steamer Lilac.
2008 July Vol. 17 No. 2
CHAPTER EVENTS
Tour of the Steamship Lilac
Annual RCSIA Corn Roast and Tour of Roebling Aqueduct, Lackawaxen, PA
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Board meeting minutes, May 13, 2008
DUES INCREASE
SPECIAL PROJECTS COMMITTEE NEWS
Special Projects Fund Raising Questionnaire
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE NEWS
Preservation Alert! Whitney to Extinguish Gansevoort Pumping Station
Kosciuszko Bridge Going Down
EVENT REPORT
Brooklyn Bridge 125th Anniversary Celebration
BOOKS
Kevin Olsen, A Great Conveniency: A Maritime History of the Passaic River, Hackensack River and Newark Bay published by American History Imprints.
2008 March Vol. 17 No. 1
CHAPTER EVENTS
Ice Houses, Quarries, and Great Walls - the Industrial Archaeology of Rockland Lake State Park: Rockland Lake, NY.
The Industrial Archeology of Split Rock Iron Furnace; Rockaway Township, NJ
Industrial History and Cultural Change on the East River, Queens and Brooklyn, NY on the B-61 bus
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2008 Annual Meeting
2007 In Review
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE REPORT
SPECIAL PROJECTS COMMITTEE REPORT
ARTICLE
The Pencil-Making Process (Part 2, Continued from Dec. 2007 newsletter)
2007 December Vol. 16 No. 4
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2008 Annual Meeting and Paterson, NJ Historic District Tour: Paterson Museum
Minutes of Board Meeting, 16 May 2007
The New Roebling Logo
27th Annual Drew Symposium Summary
2007 JOHN A. ROEBLING AWARD: The Water Works Conservancy, Inc.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE NEWS
ARTICLES
The Eberhard Faber Pencil Company: A Short History
The Pencil-Making Process (Part 1)
2007 September Vol. 16 No. 3
CHAPTER EVENTS
Light Rail to Roebling, New Jersey, a Joint Excursion of the Roebling and Oliver Evans Chapters.
Schoen Trimming & Cord, Co. West 25th Street, Manhattan
Star Porcelain, 101 Muirhead Avenue, Trenton, NJ
Thomas A. Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum, Edison, NJ
OBITUARY
Carter Litchfield
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE NEWS
Preservation Alert! Kent Avenue (BMT) Powerhouse
Smoky Seat of Manufactures Endangered
Domino Update
TOUR REPORT: MacDonald/Klines Sawmill
2007 June Vol. 16 No. 2
CHAPTER EVENTS
Double Feature! Screening of “Brooklyn Matters” and “Made in Brooklyn”
McDonalds /Klines Mill, Bedminster Township, Somerset County, NJ.
Williamsburg and Greenpoint's Industrial Heritage Walking Tour, Brooklyn, NY
Annual RCSIA Corn Roast.
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2006 JOHN A. ROEBLING AWARD: Friends of the High Line
Meet the New Board
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE NEWS
Draft Preservation Committee Charge
Sohmer & Company Piano Factory Landmarked
OBITUARIES
Bill Wilkie
James S. Lee, Sr.
2007 March Vol. 16 No. 1
CHAPTER EVENTS
Morris Canal Plane 9
Yama Farm, Wawarsing, NY
The Rail Yard History of Riverside Park South, Manhattan
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2007 Meeting Report
2006 in Review
26th Annual Drew Symposium summary
OTHER EVENTS
The Society for Industrial Archeology’s 36th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
PANYC Public Program – The Industrial Archaeology of New York City
2007 POTS Symposium: New Jersey Terra Cotta Industry
2006 December Vol. 15 No. 4
CHAPTER BUSINESS
2007 Annual Meeting
2006 Meeting Report
2005 In Review
2006 November Vol. 15 No. 3
CHAPTER EVENTS
Rutgers Curator’s Tour
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Board Meeting Minutes 18 March 2006
TOUR REPORTS
Roebling Curator’s Tour
Industries of the High Line
CNEHA Conference Report
Edison Memorial Celebration Report
SITE NEWS
Fisher&Norris Factory Museum
Pier 64 Changes
PUBLICATIONS
Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape, by Tom Rinaldi and Rob Yasinsac, University Press of New England, 2006
722 Miles: The Building of the Subway and How They Transformed New York, by Clifton Hood, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
Hudson River Online
2006 August Vol. 15 No. 2
CHAPTER EVENTS
Roebling Curator’s Tour
Industries of the High Line
Corn Roast & Mystery Tour
Drew Symposium
TOUR REPORTS
Ralston Cider Mill
200TH BIRTHDAY: John A. Roebling Symposium
Roebling Papers Exhibit, Alexander Library, Rutgers
OTHER EVENTS
New York’s Canals Conference: Many Waterways, One Current
Woven Together: Basket Factory Photos
SITE NEWS
GTM Fired!
Early Concrete Structure Landmarked
Newtown Creek Grant
Battery Park Dig
Estey Piano Factory Designated
2006 March Vol. 15 No. 1
CHAPTER EVENTS
Big Box on the Basin: Retaining Red Hook’s Last Working Shipyard(Exhibit)
Historic Ralston Mill Tour
Rail Yard History of Riverside Park South
200th BIRTHDAY John A. Roebling: His Life and Legacy at the Trenton City Museum
ASCE Celebration
John A. Roebling: The Man and Masterbuilder
OTHER EVENTS
Oreland Industrial Heritage Walk
Tour of Paterson Falls
Central New England Railway Tour 2006
New Jersey Shipwreck Symposium & Workshop
Globalization & Industrial America, 1830-2005
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Digitized NJ Industries Reports
SITE NEWS
Waterside Down
ADVOCACY
ANCW Update (Austin Nichols)
Graving Dock (Red Hook)
2005 December Vol. 14 No. 4
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Annual Meeting, Jan 29, 2005
Story of the Drew Symposium by Tom Flagg
2005 Symposium Report
2005 Roebling Award
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New LIC Book, LIC in Context: An Unorthodox Guide to Long Island City
Call for Papers, Conference on New York History, Columbia University
CORRECTION
MEMBER NEWS
EAST RIVER PANEL REPORT
2005 November Vol. 14 No. 3
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Call for Nominations, Annual Business Meeting
TOUR REPORTS
Harvey Cruise
Corn Roast
OTHER EVENTS
East River Preservation, Metropolitan Alliance, Urban Center, Manhattan
Caddell Dry Dock, Noble Maritime Collection, Staten Island
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New York Research Grant, 2006, Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program
New Jersey Historic List Serve
Gruber Wagon Works: The Place Where Time Stood Still, Wagon Works Books
Wagon-Making in the United States during the Late-
19th through Mid-20th Centuries: A Study of the
Gruber Wagon Works at Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, Wagon Works Books
2005 August Vol. 14 No. 2
TOURS
Roosevelt Island Infrastructure
Corn Roast, Sept. 18, Croton-on-Hudson
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Call for Nominations: Roebling Award
Call for Papers: Drew Symposium
200th Birthday of John Augustus Roebling
Call for Papers: American Society of Civil Engineers
OTHER EVENTS
IA at MAS: Industrial Archeology at Municipal Arts Society
Ironmasters Conference, Sterling Forest, Tuxedo, N.Y.
ADVOCACY
ANCW Update (Austin Nichols & Co. Warehouse in Williamsburg)
SITES
Waterside Generating Stations
PUBLICATIONS
Goodbye Gowanus, BKLYN magazine, byHoward Halle
Decorative Architectural Ironwork, byDiana Stuart
The Encyclopedia of New York State
2005 July Vol. 14. No. 1
TOURS
Fireboat Harvey Cruise, Pier 63, Manhattan
OTHER EVENTS
Up Newtown Creek, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn
Foundry Days, Cold Spring, Putnam County, N.Y.
Steamboat Excursion, Lambertville, N.J.
ROEBLING CHAPTER BUSINESS
East River Project, East River Industrial Heritage Guide
Annual Meeting Report
MEMBER NEWS
Margot Gayle
Rodney Swain
ADVOCACY
A Partial Win: Austin Nichols & Co. Warehouse
A Loss: Long Island City Powerhouse
2004 December Vol. 13 No. 4
ROEBLING CHAPTER BUSINESS
Proposed Bylaws Change
Annual Meeting, Jan. 29, Drew University
DREW SYMPOSIUM REPORT
OTHER EVENTS
The Eighteenth Annual Conference on New England Industrial Archeology
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New York State Library Research, grants invitation
New York Archives Residency
ADVOCACY
Water Street Tower, Brooklyn
2004 October Vol. 13 No. 3
TOURS
Library & Locks, General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, Manhattan
OTHER EVENTS
Subways 100!
NYPL Exhibition (New York Public Library)
NYHS Exhibition (New York Historical Society)
Tug Pegasus Reception, Henry Buhl’s loft
The General Lecture Series, General Society building, Manhattan:
The Bridges of New York City, Prof. Henry Petroski
Subway Style: A Centennial Celebration, John Kriskieiewics
Roosevelt Island Tours
TOUR REPORTS
Three Tugs Tour
Manhattanville Works
Corn Roast
ADVOCACY
South Street Seaport
ROEBLING CHAPTER BUSINESS
General Information
Dues/Address Changes
2004 July Vol. 13 No. 2
TOURS
Three Tugs Tour, Garner’s Yard, Staten Island
Manhattanville Works
OTHER EVENTS
Open House, West Point Foundry
TOUR REPORTS
College of St. Elizabeth Tour
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Call for Nominations: Roebling Award
Call for Papers: Drew Symposium
SITE NEWS
John J. Harvey
Tug Pegasus
ADVOCACY
Austin Nichols & Co. Warehouse
2004 April Vol. 13 No. 1
TOURS
College of St. Elizabeth Tour, Morristown, N.J.
CHAPTER BUSINESS
Dues Reminder
Annual Meeting Report
RCSIA on Web
Budget Committee
Legal Advice
ANNOUNCEMENTS: NEW BOOKS
The Hackensack Water Works, by Clifford W. Zink
The Manhattan Bridge: The Troubled Story of a New York Monument, by Thomas R. Winpenny
TOUR REPORTS
Whitlock Cordage Tour
OTHER EVENTS
Hidden Harbor Tours, foot of Houston St., Manhattan
SITE NEWS
Bannerman’s Castle
H & M Powerhouse
2003 December Vol. 12 No. 3
UPCOMING CHAPTER EVENTS
Annual Meeting
OTHER EVENTS
Rail Film Fest, Easton, Pa.
Canal Symposium, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.
TOUR REPORTS
Corn Roast
Rail Marine Operations
High Line
Edison’s Mines
Trenton Industries
Symposium Report
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Domino Sugar
Rutsch Fund
Roebling on the Net
ROEBLING CHAPTER BUSINESS
Board Meeting
Dues/Address Changes
2003 August Vol. 12 No. 2
UPCOMING CHAPTER EVENTS
High Line, Manhattan
Corn Roast, Croton-on-Hudson
Rail Marine Operations, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn
Drew Symposium
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Volunteer Opportunity
New Book, Designs Underfoot: The Art of Manhole Covers, by Diane Stuart
Websites
B&O Meeting
Ed Rutsch, 1936-2003, an obituary
Steam Returns to Hudson
ROEBLING CHAPTER BUSINESS
General update
TOUR REPORTS
Domino Sugar
West Point Foundry
Williamsburg Bridge Centennial
2003 April Vol. 12 No. 1
UPCOMING CHAPTER EVENTS
Domino Sugar Refinery, Brooklyn
High Line, Manhattan
FUTURE EVENTS
IRT Power Station, Manhattan
Bush Terminal, Brooklyn
Edison’s Mines, New Jersey
ROEBLING CHAPTER BUSINESS
Meet Your New Board!
Summary of Annual Meeting
ROEBLING AWARDS
Call for Nominations
OTHER EVENTS
Photography Exhibit, Croton Library
Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges Walk
Williamsburg Bridge 100th Birthday Celebration
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