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Museums & Industrial Heritage Sites to visit
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| Bahr's Mill in Gabelsville, Pennsylvania This web site of the Bahr's Mill Preservation Society provides information, history and a virtual tour of the Bahr's Mill, located in Southeastern PA. The stone mill was built in 1897 for Jacob Bahr's woodworking and grist mill business. The museum located in the mill building includes woodworking machinery of the 1870's, including a duplicating lathe, a polishing machine and a spoke-tenoning machine. |
| Historic Bethlehem Partnership (http://www.historicbethlehem.org) administers the Colonial Industrial Quarter in historic downtown Bethlehem, PA. Colonial Moravian technological ingenuity created America's first industrial park on this site. Opening the doors of these restored and reconstructed buildings reveal how waterpower and humanpower combined to make work easier 260 years ago. Animal hides became leather in the 1761 Tannery while the 1762 Waterworks, a National Landmark, housed early America's first pumped town water system. The 1869 Luckenbach Mill ground grain into flour until 1949 and today houses the administrative offices of the Historic Bethlehem Partnership. The reconstructed 1750/1761 Smithy with its anvils, forges, and bellows was the worksite for the men who worked in iron-the blacksmith, locksmith, and nailsmith. |
| Big Brutus (www.bigbrutus.org) features information about a massive dragline (stripping shovel) preserved and open to the public near West Mineral, KS. The 160-ft.-tall shovel is a Bucyrus Erie Model 1850B. The museum also has exhibits on Kansas coal-mining history. |
The British Engineerium http://www.britishengineerium.com/ Detailed information about a restored working Victorian pumping station and museum of steam and mechnanical antiquities. Web site includes the history of the pumping station and info about the many different steam engines in the musuem.
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| Concrete (www.concrete-wa.com), a small town in Washington’snorthern Cascades, is the former home of the Washington Portland Cement Co. and the Superior Portland Cement Co.The town’s Web site has info on the Concrete Heritage Museum,Great Northern Rwy., cement- industry sites, and reinforced-concretearch bridges, dams, and buildings. The town is using industrialheritage to promote tourism. |
| Eco Museum Bergslagen. A presentation in pictures and text of the industrial history of the iron making region Bergslagen, Sweden from around 500 B.C. up to the present. Text can be displayed in both English and Swedish. |
 European Route of Industrial Heritage is a network of the important industrial heritage sites (with links and info on the routes) in Europe. The routes consists of the anchor points: the outstanding industrial monuments in the former heartlands of the Industrial Revolution, Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany. |
| The Industrial Heritage Association of Ireland(IHAI) was established in June 1996 to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the many thousands of sites, monuments and items of machinery that together constitute our industrial heritage. |
Ironbridge Gorge Museums. provides detailed information about 7 historical sites run by the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. The Ironbridge is listed as a World Heritage Site. The Ironbridge Gorge Museums include the Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron & Darby Houses, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Coalport China Museum and Tar Tunnel, Museum of the Gorge, the Iron Bridge & Tollhouse, Jackfield Tile Museum and the Broseley Pipeworks.
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| Georgia, Rails and Phones (www.SAMshortline.com). Savannah-Americus-Montgomery RR (SAM) began operating an excursion train in central Georgia last year. Line runs west from Cordele to Plains, where passengers disembark to explore the hometown of Jimmy Carter. Another stop, the Georgia Rural TelephoneMuseum in Leslie, housed in a 1920s cotton warehouse, has a large collection of vintage telephone and communications equipment. |
| Harriston Coal & Reclamation Historical Park (www.hcrhp.org) The Harrison Coal & Reclamation Historical Park was founded and established in 1992 for purpose of forming an organization with the major goal of saving and acquiring the Silver Spade when its working days are over for good. |
| National Canal Museum (www.canals.org). Activities and programs in Easton, PA (tour host—Fall Tour 2002, Lehigh Valley). Historian Lance Metz [SIA], answers questions about canals in the ?Ask Lance? section. |
| Nevada’s Industrial Heritage (www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/nevada/).Three Historic Cities: Carson City, Reno, and Virginia City? is an on-line travel itinerary of 57 NR-listed historic places. Featured prominently are mines and railroads, and the stories of the people who built them. |
| Wabash & Erie Canal (www.wabashanderiecanal.org). Learn about the history of this Indiana canal and the new canal museum in Delphi. |
