Volume/Year

 Selected feature articles

 V34, No.1

(Winter 2005)

28 pages

Mailed in March 2005 to all 2004 & 2005 paid members.

• Gambling on Bethlehem Steel's Future - Will the gambling industry help rescue and preserve Lehigh Valley's steelmaking heritage ?
• Visit the "Machine Shop of the World' and the Motor City with our June 2005 Milwaukee Conference and Sept. 2005 Detriot Fall tour.
• Wilmington, Delaware - Review of 2004 SIA Fall Tour
• Bellanca Hangar, New Castle, DE, needs preservation
• Geophysics in Industrial Archeology: Ground-Penetrating Radar Surveys at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY
• Lime Creek's Most Unusual Bridge, Rockford, Iowa
• Wilson Bridge: A Saga in Saving Indiana's Bridges, Delphi, IN.
• Ohio Rolling Mill Engine Moves to New Home, Group Works to save large machines of Youngstown's Steel Heritage
• Knight Foundry Update: Plans to restart Production in 2005, Sutter Creek, CA
• Documenting a Pre-Fab Fallout shelter in Georgia, Gainesville, GA
• Saint Paul Municipal Grain Terminal building threatened, St. Paul, MN

• Orukter Amphibolos; Oliver Evans SIA Chapter Plans Celebration of 200th Anniversary of the First Motorized Carriage that took place in Philadelphia, Pa. in July 1805.
• About the SIA Study Tour to Bologna, Italy in November, 2005
• IA in Wisconsin Art: The Arthur Covey Murals at Kohler "HE WHO TOILS HERE HATH SET HIS MARK" on the Pouring a Mold mural.
• Preserving Hermi's Bridge, (2-Span, 280-ft.-long, pin-connected, Pratt, through-truss bridge constructed by the Cotton States Bridge Co. in 1903) over the Chattahoochee River, near Atlanta, Georgia.
• Reinforced-concrete Bowstring Bridge moved intact & preserved, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada
• Conservation of the Cotton Gin, Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge. (composed of parts of 3 gins saved from the Union Cotton Oil Mill. The gins were manufactured by the Eleazer Carver Gin Company of Bridgewater, Ma.)
• Henry Burden's Horseshoe Machines; Building model Horseshoe Machines, based on the patents of Henry Burden. (Henry Burden of the Burden Iron Works, Troy, NY)

• Ruin and Restoration: The Fates of Two Historic Auto Plants in Detroit, MI (1906-1911 Studebaker plant & Ford Motor Company Piquette Ave. Plant (1904) where Ford designed the Model T & produced the first 12,000.
• Motown Review IV: Detroit's IA in 2005
• Review of 2005 Annual Conference held this year in Milwaukee, WI
• Breweries of Milwaukee
• HAER documents Western Union relay site in the western Pennslvania's Laurel Highlands
• New federal policies endanger historic 20th C. American communication engineering sites
• Bridges of Ernest L. Ransome
• The timber crossing at Rockford, IL (Rockford all timber truss bridge)

• National Heritage Areas: Current Trends Shaping the Future of America's Industrial Sites.
• Future of Francis Mill (Waynesville, NC) Looking Bright: SIA Preservation Grant Helps Bring Complete Restoration Closer
• Drawings Verify Concerns (hazardous materials at old industrial sites) during Environment Assessment.
• Monocacy Aqueduct (Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Aqueduct- Maryland) Stabilization
• Hope for the Kinzua Viaduct (Penn. Kinzua Valley) New project turns tornado into opportunity
• The Wonderful "Oddities" of American Bridge Building
• Iron Pipe Bridges (pony-truss bridge using iron pipes for the upper chords) of Charles H. Ball
• Bridge Patents & Pipes: 19th century, metal-truss bridges built with hollow round members
• Excavations at Van Winkle's Blacksmith Shop (at Van Winkle's Mill in the Ozarks, Arkansas)
• Rehabbing Happy's Bridge (Depot Street Bridge over the Middle Fork of the Holston River in Marion, Virginia
• Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge (on Wacoochee Creek, near Opelika, Alabama