SIA Online Newsletter (SIAN) 2004

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 V33, No.1 (Winter 2004)

Mailed in March 2004 to all 2004 & 2003 paid members.

  • Bridges, Beets, Dams, Oil & More -- IA in Northeast Montana, Review of the 2003 Fall Tour
  • Motiva Refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, Celebrates Centennial
  • O. Winston Link Museum opens in Roanoke, Virginia
  • Minneapolis's (MN) New Mill City Museum (Grand Opening)
  • Norway IA Outpost, Svalbard Conference. an international conference on polar archeology and history
  • IA News from the Salt City (Syracuse, NY)
  • Margot Gayle, honored by the establishment of the Margot Gale Fund for the Preservation of Victorian Heritage in NYC

First page image of SIAN Vol. 33, No. 1 92004)

 V33, No. 2-3 (Spring-Summer 2004)

Mailed in July 2004 to all 2004 & 2003 paid members

  • High Line: About (with photographs) a project in New York City to save a historic viaduct, all that remains of Manhattan's only all-freight railway, now caledl the "High Line"
  • Details about the SIA awarding the Society's first two Industrial Heritage Preservation Grants. A grant of $1,375 has been awarded to the Montague Association for the Restoration of Community History, and $1,377 has been awarded to the Schoharie River Center
  • IA Notes from Catalonia: All about the study tour to Catalonia, Spain (with photographs)
  • SIA hires Mary Habstritt as Events Coordinator to oversee arrangements for annual conferences, fall tours and study tours
  • SIA Education Survey Results
  • SIA Election Results
  • Railroad Roundhoulse Archeology in New Haven, Connecticut (with photographs)

V33, No. 4 (Fall 2004)- 24 pages

Mailed in December 2004 to all 2004 paid members

  • Michigan Tech (Houghton, MI) students continue research at the West Point Foundry (Cold Spring, NY)
  • Review of the 2004 SIA Annual Conference held in Providence, Rhode Island. Industrial sites visited: Slater Mill Historic Site, Cranston Print Works, Wardwell Braiding Machine, Leedon Webbing, Gowdy Reed, Guyot Brothers, Charles Thomae & Sons Silversmiths, Attleboro Area Industrial Museum, Conklin Limestone, Washington Mills, Riverdale Mills, Lippitt Mill, Hope Village, Scituate Reservoir & Treatment Plant, New England Museum of Wireless & Steam, Perkins Foundry, Bridgewater Iron Works, Stonehill Industrial History Center, Simpson Springs, Tremont Nail, New England Ropes, Blount Boats, Blount Seafood, Herreshoff Marine Museum, International Yacht Restoration School, Museum of Yachting, Fort Adams, Endicott Board fortifications, Conanicut Battery, Fort Wetherill, Fort Burnside, Fort Varnum, Fort Nathanael Greene, Valleys Falls Mills, Rehoboth Research Bloomery & Genuine Forgery.
  • Philip Lord, 2004 Vogel Prize winner
  • Charles K. Hyde, 2004 General Tools Award Recipient
  • Hard-Rock Mining Workshop hosted by Silverston, Colorado
  • Aldrich Change Bridge (1858 Whipple truss) dedicated, Wayne County, NY
  • Bollman's Warren-Truss Bridge (Meyersdale, PA) to be relocated (oldest surviving all-metal Warren truss bridge in USA)
  • Francis Mill - 1887 (Haywood County, NC) being brought back to life. Heritage Conservation Network provides workforce for North Carolina Grist Mill restoration.


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