Thursday, October 17, 2002 (8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.)-optional
****Note: This Thursday tour is now full****
Lunch included; dinner on your own. Minimum of 35 registrants necessary; maximum of 45 registrants.
Bus #1 (leaves Ramada Inn promptly at 8:15 a.m.)
- 9 a.m. Mack Truck Museum, Hanover Township, Pa.
Currently housed in an industrial park, the museum houses more than 100 years of Mack Truck and other manufacturers' products. It will be included in the proposed America on Wheels Museum, which will be built along the Lehigh River in Allentown, Pa.
- Mack Truck History & Museum web address: http://www.macktrucks.com/history/hist_frm.htm
- 10:30 a.m. Bethlehem Steel, Bethlehem, Pa.
The birthplace of the modern American defense industry, Bethlehem Steel was once America's second largest steel company. Although the Bethlehem plant closed in 1995, most of its historic buildings and blast furnaces survive.
- Bethlehem Steel web address: http://www.bethsteel.com/
- Bethlehem, PA info & history web address: http://www.bethlehempaonline.com/
- 12:15 p.m. Martin Guitar, Nazareth, Pa.
Recently documented by the Historic American Engineering Record, Martin Guitar has produced top-quality guitars in Nazareth for nearly 150 years.
- Martin Guitar web address: http://www.mguitar.com/
- 1:30 p.m. Lunch at Nazareth Municipal Park
- 3 p.m. Steam Pump House, Phillipsburg, N.J.
Built in 1913 to house a triple expansion Allis-Chalmers steam pump, the Pump House has been preserved as a historic engineering monument. Although electric pumps replaced the Allis-Chalmers pump in the 1950s, the steam pump was maintained as a backup until the 1980s.
- New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center web address: http://www.njthc.org/
- Bus #2 (leaves Ramada Inn promptly at 8:30 a.m.)
- 9 a.m. Martin Guitar, Nazareth, Pa.
- 11 a.m. Bethlehem Steel, Bethlehem, Pa.
- 12:30 p.m. Lunch at park on South Mountain
- 2 p.m. Mack Truck Museum, Hanover Township, Pa.
- 3:15 p.m. Steam Pump House, Phillipsburg, N.J.
- 7:30-9 p.m. Lecture, Ramada Inn
"Introduction to the Lehigh Valley's Industrial Heritage," by Lance Metz
- 9-10 p.m. Show and Tell, Ramada Inn (advance sign-up required)
Friday, October 18, 2002 (7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
Lunch included; dinner on your own
Buses leave from Ramada Inn promptly at 7:45 a.m.
- ***CHANGE IN FRIDAY TOUR ITINERARY****8:30 a.m. Fuller/Taylor Engineering. Allentown, PA.
Fuller Engineering is a turn-of-the-century plant that produces machines for the worldwide cement industry. The plant has the world's largest gear cutting machine. Note: Hard hats are required. Please bring your hard hat and safety glasses if you have them.
- 11:15 a.m. Big Bed Slate Quarry, Slatedale, Pa.
Just north of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania's Slate Belt contains the richest slate veins in the world and once produced more than two-thirds of America's roofing products. The Big Bed quarry one of only two operating quarries left in the region, continues to produce slate for pool tables and roofing.
- Info about the use of slate: http://www.traditionalroofing.com/
- History of the Big Bed Slate Quarry: http://www.traditionalroofing.com/TR1-PennBigBed.html
- 1:15 p.m. Lunch at Canal Park, Walnutport, Pa.
- 2:30 p.m. Hercules Cement, Stockertown, Pa.
Since 1917, this plant has produced high-quality cement for the construction industry.
- 5 - 7 p.m. SIA Board Meeting, Ramada Inn
- 7 - 9 p.m. Reception, Raymond E. Holland Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.
Refreshments; Cash Bar. Shuttles will be available between the Ramada Inn and the museum.
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- Saturday, October 19, 2002 (8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.)
Lunch and dinner included
Buses leave from Ramada Inn promptly at 8:30 a.m.
- 9 a.m. Haines Mill, Cetronia, Pa.
More than a dozen grist and roller mills once produced flour meal and other grain products along Cedar Creek in Lehigh County. Still powered by a water turbine, Haines Mill is a rare artifact from an industry that has largely vanished.
- 10:30 a.m. Historic Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Pa.
In the 1 740s, the Moravian community developed large-scale, water-powered industries along the Monocacy Creek in Bethlehem. Grist mills, oil mills, a tannery, and the country' first mechanically-pumped waterworks once supplied Moravian settlements throughout North America.
- Historic Bethlehem web address: http://www.historicbethlehem.org/
- 12 p.m. Lunch at Nazareth Municipal Park
- 12:45 p.m. Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pa.
Housed in the Whitefield House, the oldest documented stone structure in the Lehigh Valley, the society maintains significant collections that document the Moravian community and its pioneering contributions to technology.
- Moravian Historical Society web address: http://www.moravianhistoricalsociety.org/
- 3 p.m. Canal Boat ride on Lehigh Canal, Easton, Pa.
The Josiah White II, a mule-drawn canal boat, operates seasonally on section 8 of the Lehigh Canal. During the leisurely ride enjoy live folk music.
- National Canal Museum web address: http://www.canals.org/
- 6 p.m. Dinner at Two Rivers Landing, Easton.
- 7 - 8:30 p.m. National Canal Museum, Two Rivers Landing, Easton.
For more than 20 years, the museum's interactive, hands-on exhibits have promoted the appreciation, preservation and restoration of canal-related sites in the United States and Canada. The canal industry helped create a national economy as well as the Lehigh Valley's anthracite coal, iron, cement and textile industries.
- National Canal Museum web address: http://www.canals.org/
- Sunday, October 20, 2002 - optional
- Historic Bridge Tour
Pre-Civil War bridges; Hellertown Historical Society's Restored Grist Mill
- Cement Heritage Tour
Travel Route 329, the heart of the Cement Belt. The cement industry in the Lehigh Valley dates to 1828 By 1900, the region produced nearly 75 percent of the cement used in the United States each year
Atlas Cement Museum, Northampton, Pa
Now the site of an electrical co-generating plant, the Atlas Cement Plant once produced the brilliant white cement used to build the Panama CanaL The museum interprets the company's achievements.
- Atlas Cement Museum web address: http://northamptonpa.com/nham/atlasmus.htm
- Saylor Cement Kilns, Coplay, Pa.
The Schoefer Kilns on exhibit are all that remain of David Saylor's 1860s operations on the site. Saylor revolutionized the industry and produced the first true Portland Cement manufactured in North America.
Bus Tours: Choose one; lunch included on both tours.
- Canal Tour (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
Minimum of 35 registrants necessary; lunch included. Bus tour of Delaware, Delaware and Raritan, and Morris Canals. Includes stops at a functioning 19th-century woodworking and machine shop in Riegelsville, Pa., and at the excavated powerhouse of Morris Canal Plane No.9 West in Stewartsville, N.J Also includes Pennsylvania' Delaware Division Canal: Sixty Miles of Euphoria and Frustration (2002) by Albright Zimmerman, Ph. D.
- Anthracite Tour (8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.)
Minimum of 35 registrants necessary; lunch included. Bus tour of Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region. Includes stops at No.9 Wash House Museum and Mine Tour in Lansford; coal stripping operations in Freeland; and Eckley Miner's Village Museum in Eckley (http://www.eckleyminers.org/). Also includes Coal Miners of the Panther Valley (1999) by Thomas Dublin, Ph.D., and George Harvan.
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