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We in the Samuel Knight
Chapter can congratulate ourselves on forming
an 'industrial strength' new organization! Since our
founding in March of
this year, we have launched an array of special projects
with wide scope
for membership participation, published this (we hope)
informative and
entertaining newsletter on an irregular but frequent basis
and conducted a
fascinating series of tours, big and small. (If you are not
a member yet and
would like to join, please turn to the last pages of this
newsletter. )
 Our founding meeting convened on-board
a narrowgauge flatcar on the
last remaining horse drawn railroad in the
country.
- Our first event was a hike out to
overlook the salt evaporation ponds on
San Francisco Bay and a seminar on Knight
Foundry.
- We spent a wonderful day touring the
Carter Brothers Car restoration
facilities of the Society for the Preservation of
Carter Railroad Resources.
- "The high point of the summer," as one
member put it, was a four hour
up-close boat tour of San Francisco's maritime
industry, attracting over 250
people and featuring a wonderful team of 'tour
guides'. We'll do this again
in July, 1998 -this event may plant the seed of a
movement to create a
Maritime Industrial Heritage Corridor for San
Francisco.
- We recently had very informative tours
of the New Almaden Quicksilver
Park mercury mining site and the Joshua Hendy Iron
Works Iron Man
Museum, both reviewed in this issue.
Our special projects - the
early development of our Industrial Skills
Preservation Resource Center and Archive Website, our
examination of the
problems of preserving Knight Foundry and, most recently,
the discovery
of the submerged site of the 1884 Alameda Point Ferry
Terminal - have
been reported in the pages of this newsletter. As you will
see in the article
below, our first event of 1998 will be a renewed drive to
re-start Knight
Foundry in Sutter Creek - an exciting kick-off for the new
year. Please
accept this open invitation to suggest, help plan, and get
involved in future
projects or tours - we are a membership drivenChapter.
The Chapter has grown to 45
members, largely via outreach to SIA
members and word of mouth. We will soon go public with two
projects -
one hot, one splashy: the drive to re-start Knight &
Co., Historic Water-
Powered Iron Foundry and Machine Shop and our campaign to
have the
submerged Alameda Point Ferry Terminal site first placed on
the National
Register of Historic Places and then, ultimately,
excavated. These present
opportunities to spotlight the Chapter in preservation
group newsletters
and in the general press.
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