May 10-14, 2001: The 30th Annual SIA Conference, Washington, DC, at the Renaissance Hotel, 999 9th St, NW, Washington, DC.

WELCOME BACK TO WASHINGTON FOR SIA'S 30th ANNIVERSARY

The Society for Industrial Archeology was founded in Washington, DC, in 1971. Join the Montgomery C. Meigs Original Chapter for the thirtieth anniversary of the Society as we explore the industrial and engineering legacy of the nation's capital. What legacy, you ask? Few would consider Washington fertile ground for the exploration of industrial heritage. The business of Washington is the federal government, which evokes images of government buildings amidst landscaped settings. However, this bureaucratic monolith evolved its own unique industrial character, fed by the need to construct immense government buildings and the requirement to support a growing population of government workers. While Washington's industrial heritage never reached the magnitude, concentration, or character of Pittsburgh, Buffalo, or other smoky cities, the district offers a dispersed industrial heritage unique to the its role as the seat of our federal government. Come explore Washington's printing industry, canals, defense plants, water works, bridges, power plants, mills, cast-iron building elements, and other aspects of the capital region's industrial and engineering past.

CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS

The Renaissance Washington DC Hotel is located at 999 Ninth St., NW at the corner of Ninth & K streets, fronting Mount Vernon Square. Hotel parking is available at $15 per day. The Renaissance is two blocks from the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro station. A block of rooms reserved at the hotel for conference registrants will be held through April 30. Conference rates are $120/single and $145/double. All rates are subject to DC's 14.5% sales tax. Reservations can be made with the hotel by calling 202-898-9000 or at www.RenaissanceHotels.com. Please make your reservations early as the hotel is likely to sell out.

LOCATION/TRANSPORTATION

Directions by car, from South: Take I-395 tunnel beneath the Mall. Exit at Massachusetts Ave. Turn left at light, drive six blocks, turn left on K St. at Mt. Vernon Place, and left on Ninth (for check in). Turn left on Eye (I) St. for parking.

From West: Take I-270 from Frederick to Capitol Beltway south/west towards Virginia. After crossing Potomac River bridge, take first exit, George Washington Memorial Parkway. Follow signs to I-395 north and follow directions above.

From North: Take I-95 to Capitol Beltway to Baltimore-Washington Parkway to New York Ave. Turn left at Ninth St.; hotel is on your left below K St.

By air: Washington is served by three airports: Reagan National (fifteen minute ride, Metro accessible); BWI (forty-five minute ride, rail accessible); and Dulles (forty-five minute ride). Several shuttle service options are available: Washington Flyer offers a $26 round trip fare from Dulles to the Convention Center (703) 685-1400. Super Shuttle serves all three airports directly to the hotel: $9 from National, $24 from Dulles ($10 additional passengers), $30 from BWI ($8 additional passengers) at (800) 258-3826. (Fares one way only)

By rail: The Renaissance is a short cab ride from Union Station or two stops on the Metro Red Line to Gallery Place Metro (exit at 9th Street).

Additional/contact Information

Conference contacts:

General Info: Christopher Marston, Conference Co-chair

Lodging: Renaissance Washington D.C. Hotel

Registration: Don Durfee, SIA Headquarters Coordinator

Host Committee: Dean Herrin, Christopher Marston, Co-Chairs; Thomas Behrens, Todd Croteau, Lisa Davidson, Eric DeLony, Dana Lockett, Marilyn Harper, Sara Leach, Rex McClain, Richard O'Connor, Richard Quin, David Shayt, Joel Sphrentz, Barry Virts, Robert Vogel, Helena Wright.

Conference Sponsors: Montgomery C. Meigs Original Chapter of the SIA, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record, Smithsonian Institution, Historical Society of Washington.

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2001

FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2001

SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2001

SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2001

MONDAY, MAY 14, 2001

Free Exhibits to see in D.C.

CONFERENCE TOURS

THURSDAY, MAY 10

Tour T1: Beretta U.S.A. Corp. Tour (8:00am-1:00pm)

NOTE: THIS TOUR IS NOW FULL AND SOLD OUT

This early bird tour will visit Beretta U.S.A. Corp. in Accokeek, MD to see the intricate technology of firearms production .

Tour T2: Architectural Walking Tour (2:00pm-4:00pm)

This sidewalk tour will explore DC's old downtown, a rejuvenated urban district featuring an eclectic mix of old and new commercial architecture.

Tour T3: Capital Dome Tour (2:15pm-4:30pm)

NOTE: THIS TOUR IS NOW FULL AND SOLD OUT

This tour offers a rare glimpse of the recently restored Meigs - Walter cast-iron frame. (Tour will be limited to 14, selected by lottery, and is subject to cancellation by the Architect of the Capitol's Office).

Tour T4: Construction Tour (3pm - 5pm)

Tour the construction of the new Washington Convention Center, scheduled for completion in 2003 and currently the largest

excavation site in the Western Hemisphere.

FRIDAY, MAY 11

Tour F1: Montgomery C. Meigs and Washington's Water Supply

The local SIA chapter's namesake began construction of Washington's water supply system in the 1850s. This tour will explore many of his original structures, as well as modern improvements to the system. Stops include the Great Falls, MD, gatehouse and dam; the Cabin John Aqueduct Bridge (the longest single-span masonry arch bridge in the world when completed in 1863); the Dalecarlia Reservoir and Treatment Plant; the Georgetown Reservoir; the McMillan Reservoir and Sand Treatment System Plant; and the Bryant Street Pumping Station (which also houses a small museum of system artifacts).

Tour F2: Flying Buttresses, Vaults, and Cast-Iron Frames: Historic Structures

This tour will visit a number of Washington landmarks for behind-the-scenes looks at structural technologies. Themes will include nineteenth century fireproofing, innovative federal buildings, and contemporary adaptations of Gothic architecture. Sites are the National Cathedral, the Smithsonian Castle, the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building, the General Post Office (Tariff Commision), and the Patent Office. The tour will end at the National Building Museum, the former Pension Building, designed and built by Montgomery C. Meigs in the 1880s.

Tour F3: Historic Bridges of DC and Beyond

Join pontists Eric DeLony, Robert Vogel, and Justin Spivey on a rigorous tour of the bridges of the capital region. The tour will start with a journey beyond the beltway to see the Bollman Bridge at Savage, MD and the legendary Thomas Viaduct. Other spans include Meigs' Cabin John Aqueduct Bridge and Rock Creek cast-iron (Pennsylvania Avenue) Bridge; Taft Memorial Bridge; Key Bridge; and a 1910 pin-connected B & O RR truss. [Be prepared for a long day of traveling long distances and climbing around trusses and up steep embankments to fully appreciate all the elements of these interesting structures.]

Tour F4: Defense Technologies

Defense is a Washington industry, and this tour starts at the White Oak Naval Weapons Research Center to see Cold War-era munitions facilities including a Hydro-ballistic Test Tank, and a High Gravity Centrifugal Pit. Next stop is the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock, MD, and its large testing facilities, including the David Taylor Model Basin. The final stop will be Advanced Marine Engineering in Crystal City, VA, and computer modeling of naval weapons systems. [For security reasons, non-U.S. citizens must provide specific personal information 10 days prior to the tour. Those affected will be notified prior to the conference.]

Tour F5: Printing, Power, and Milling

This tour will explore a variety of industries prominent in Washington's past, including printing, power generation, and milling. Stops will feature the Government Printing Office, the largest in-plant printing operation in the nation; the PEPCO Potomac River Generating Station in Alexandria, VA; and the Colvin Run Mill, near Great Falls, VA, a restored, operational ca. 1811 gristmill with a blacksmith shop, general store, and miller's house.

Tour F6: Printing, Flying, and Farming

Although historically not a center of industrial activity, the Washington region boasts an eclectic mix of technology-oriented companies and government agencies. This tour will explore four examples: the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where 24 presses produce 37 million currency notes per day; the Washington Navy Yard, including remnants of the ordnance research and development that occurred on the premises; the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility, a center of the National Air and Space Museum, and home to nearly 200 air- and spacecraft awaiting restoration or in storage; and Mount Vernon, to see the current archeological excavation of Washington=s distillery (1797), a reconstructed gristmill, and a 16-sided treading barn.

Tour F7: Harpers Ferry and C&O Canal

Harpers Ferry was once a vibrant industrial village, home to the U.S. Armory and Arsenal. This tour will explore the industrial archeology of Harpers Ferry and Virginius Island, as well as the Potomac Power Plant, a converted paper mill that produced power until 1991. The next stop will be the still-active Eastalco Aluminum Plant in Adamstown, MD. The final site on the tour will be the Monocacy Aqueduct, the longest aqueduct on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. [Note: Eastalco requires long-sleeved shirts and sturdy shoes - no skirts, sandals or tennis shoes. No one allowed with a heartbeat regulator or laryngectomy; no children under the age of 13, and no cameras or video equipment.]

SUNDAY, MAY 13

Tour S1: IA Bicycle Tour (8:00am - 11:00am)

Bring your own or rent one from the nearby Blazing Saddles bike shop (approx. $25, located at 11th & G Sts). We will ride the Capital Crescent rail-trail through the 1910 Dalecarlia Tunnel, over a 1910 pin-connected B & O RR truss, along the C & O Canal to Georgetown, and past mill sites and bridges in Rock Creek Park.

Tour S2: Industrial Georgetown Walking Tour (9:00am - 1:00pm)

The real industrial history of Washington begins in Georgetown, terminus of the fabled C & O Canal, and home to a crowded array of early industrial structures transformed into posh eateries, boutiques, and power brokers' offices. The adjacent Potomac River, once the life blood of Georgetown's iron foundries, paper mills, and lime kilns, today forms a pastoral backdrop to malls, hotels and doctor's clinics. The area remains alive with pedestrian and street traffic in the best traditions of adaptive reuse, as protected architecture in the heart of a great city receives evermore loving care from restoration specialists and those who occupy these once gritty structures. Note: Those interested may meet up with the Canal Ride Tour at the C & O Canal Ranger Station by Lock 3 in Georgetown.

Tour S3: National Building Museum (11:00am - 1:00pm)

The former Pension Building, designed and constructed by Montgomery C. Meigs, features one of the nation's premiere interior spaces. SIAers will have a private tour of the building and a chance to explore exhibits, including "Monuments, Mills, and Missile Sites: 30 Years of HAER", and a permanent exhibit on Meigs.

Tour S4: Canal Rides (12:45pm - 3:30pm)

Relive the heyday of the C & O Canal as you ride aboard a barge embarking from Georgetown. A National Park Service interpreter will discuss the technology of canals as you glide along the canal under mulepower.

MONDAY, MAY 14

Tour M1: IA of the Upper Potomac

We will journey through this rural industrial region via Williamsport, MD, to Martinsburg, WV, to see the 1866 B & O West Roundhouse with its unique cast-iron framing. We will continue to Allegheny Energy's still-active Dam No. 4 power station and its rope-driven generators. Next we'll visit the ruins of the ca. 1829 Boteler's Cement Mill, integral to producing hydraulic mortar for the construction of the nearby C & O Canal; pass by the Antietam Ironworks; and return via the industrial relics of Harpers Ferry, WV.

Note to Participants:

As with all SIA tours, the 2001 conference tours are dependent on the willingness of site managers to permit visits. Though we expect all tours to proceed as described, tour contents may change based on site availability or other factors. Registrants will be notified of any changes.

PAPER SESSIONS

Session I: 8:30 - 10:00

Panel I. A: Rehabilitating Industrial Artifacts

Eric C. Stovener, Emmanuel E. Velivasakis, Charles H. Thornton, Glenn G. Thater, Christopher P. Pinto. A Report on the Rehabilitation of the Cast Iron U.S. Capitol Dome

Denis J. McMullan, Robert J. Kapsch, Rehabilitation of the Monocacy and Conococheague Aqueducts of the Chesapeake & Ohio (C & O) Canal

Panel I. B: Pennsylvania from East to West

David Rotenstein. A Survey of Pittsburgh's Leather Industry: 1800 - 2000

Paul Marr. Rural Industries and the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal System

Robert Howard. The Chadds Ford Water Powered Generating Station

Panel I. C: Locating and Presenting Historic Industries

Daniel Bonenberger. Surviving Historic Industries

Wolfgang Ebert. Industrial Heritage Tourism in Europe

Richard Quin. Washington and the National Meridian

Panel I. D: 18th Annual Historic Bridge Symposium

Eric DeLony. State of the Bridge

Steven Englehart. Advocating and Educating for Bridge Preservation in Rural Northern New York

William D. Middleton. The Tragedy and Triumph of the Quebec Bridge

David Simmons. Work in Progress: "if You Can' Lower the River, Raise the Bridge"

Todd A. Milano. Work in Progress: "Yesterday's Bridge for Today' Students to Become Tomorrow's Business Leaders"

Session II: 10:30 - 12:00

Panel II. A: The Urban Infrastructure

Steven R. Strohmeier. Capitalizing on the Hill: The History, Impact and Remains of the Washington, DC Streetcar System, 1862-1962

Dennis J. Connors. Bringing the Finger Lakes to Syracuse: The 19th Century Challenge of Finding a Municipal Water Supply for the Salt City

Jane Mork Gibson. Early Urban Water Supply in Philadelphia

Panel II. B: IA of Government Facilities

Sara E. Wermiel. U.S. Army Engineers and Development of Iron Skeleton Lighthouse Construction

Edward Morin. The Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation, 1918-21

Robert Stewart. Can a Buzzard Fly? The National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) and Some Early Facilities for Aerodynamics Research at Langley Air Force Base

Panel II. C: Industry in the Great Lakes Region

Michael J. Madson. Archaeological and Historical Investigations of Pittsburgh and Boston Copper Harbor Mining Company Operations, Copper Harbor, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan

Amanda Gronhovd. The Soudan Mine and Its No.8 Engine House

Stanley J. Popovich. The Process of Completing HAER Documentation of the Hulett Ore Unloaders, Cleveland,Ohio

Panel II. D: 18th Annual Historic Bridge Symposium: Learning from Historic Bridge Management

Mark Hufstetler, Mitzi Rossillon. Reinventing the Wheel: Comparisons of Statewide Historic Bridge Management Efforts

Amy Squitieri. Where Do We Go from Here, Now that All Our Inventories are Wrapping Up?

Thomas Lester. Historic Bridge Management in Practice: An Engineer's Perspective

Lunch - Annual Business Meeting: 12:15pm - 2:15pm

Session III: 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Panel III. A: The Society for Industrial Archeology at Thirty Years

Tim Tumberg. On the Origin of Disciplines: The Evolution of the Society for Industrial Archeology

Gary van Lingen & Elizabeth Norris. SIA: The Next Thirty Years

Discussion: The SIA at Thirty Years

Panel III. B: Making Iron

Edward S. Rutsch. Studies of the Cultural Landscapes of the New Jersey Highlands Charcoal Iron Industry

Gordon Pollard. A 19th Century Bloomery Iron Forge Revealed: Excavations in the Adirondacks of New York

H. Marc Howell. Antietam Iron Works, The McPherson & Brien Era, 1806-1853: A Family Works Changes with the Industry

James Brothers, IV., Charles P. Swann, "Carried on at a Very Great Expense and Never Produced any Profit:" Titanium and the Ruination of the Albemarle Ironworks, 1770-1772

Panel III. C: Harmony Brickworks, Leetsdale, Pennsylvania

Roy Hampton. The Harmony Brickworks and Turn of the Century Brickmaking Technology in Allegheny County, PA

R. Joe Brandon. Interpretation of the Harmony Brickworks Site

James C. Foura. Use of Computer Mapping and Imaging at the Harmony Brickworks

Panel III. D: 18th Annual Historic Bridge Symposium

Sheila Rimal Duwadi. National Historic Covered Bridge Preservation Program

Mark M. Brown. Reclaiming the History of the Vernacular Suspension Bridge

Pete Brooks. Design and Construction of Concrete Truss Bridges

David Guise. Rogue Bridges: Deviations from Mainstream 19th Century Truss Forms

Edward Windhorst. Restoration of the 1854 Haupt Truss Bridge at the Railroaders' Museum, Altoona, PA

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