Volume/Year

 Selected feature articles

 V35, No. 1

(Winter 2006)

24 pages

Mailed in March 2006 to all 2006 & 2005 paid members.

• New Exhibits at the Alabama Iron & Steel Museum (Tannehill Ironworks Historical Park)...1835 Dotterer steam engine once used on a rice planation near Charleston, SC; 1860s like belt-driven machine shop; cannon lathe; forge hammer; 1850s spike machine once used at the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond; rare collection of artillery shells made at the Selma Arsenal & Gun Foundry from 1862-65.
• SIA Steers to Detroit - 2005 SIA Fall Tour Review... sites visited: Nankin Mills Interpretive Center; Ford Piquette Avenue Plant (1904); Highland Park Plant (1909-1920); Ford's River Rouge complex; Rouge Factory Tour; Rouge Steel Co., Dearborn Truck Plant; New Center Stamping; Tyhssenkrupp Budd's stamping plant; Steamship St. Claire, cruise on the Detroit River; Ambassador Bridge (1929); Packard Motor Car Co. Complex (1905-1940s); Fisher Building (1927); Detroit Institute of Arts- Detroit Industry Frescoes by Diego Rivera; Dossin Great Lakes Museum; Milwaukee Junction area.
• Saving "Lost Bridge" in Miami County Indiana... Pratt through truss bridge built by the Rochester (IN) Bridge Co.
• American Museum of Papermaking opens new exhibits. (Museum is housed in the Institute of Paper Science & Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.)
• Review of the 2005 SIA Study Tour to Bologna, Italy...sites visited: Museum of Industrial Heritage, Canal Navile, Underground Bologna, IMA, SACMI, Neri, The Italian Museum of Cast Iron, Biblioteca Malatestiana, sulfur mines in Formignano-Borello, Chiusa di dam at Casalecchio di Reno, Villa Griffoni home of Museo Marconi, Ducati motorcycle factory & museum & Museum of Textiles.
• Shelburne, NH Receives Save America's Treasures" Grant to rehabilitate the 1897 Meadow Bridge (which spans the Androscoggin River close to the Maine border).
• Alabama's Black Warrior River Bridge - Restoration & Relocation Project.

• Covered Bridges: Spanning the American Landscape; HAER/Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit debuts in Harrisburg, PA; exhibit is about the HAER National Covered Bridge Recording Project, which from 2002 to 2006 produced documentation on 75 of the most significant covered bridges in the country.
• SIA Grant Helps Unlock Local Industrial History of Millville, Montague Twp., New Jersey.
• Hale Bridge finds new home in Wapsipinnicon State Park, Iowa; The c.1878 Hale bridge (built near Hale, IA crossing the Wapsipinnicon River) is a patented, bowstring-truss and is one of the oldest & longest surviving of its type. It was built by the King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio and was airlifted by Chinook helicopters to its new home on Mar. 9, 2006.
• Erie, PA Today; Erie Malleable Iron Threatened; Jackson Koehler Eagle Brewery Demolished
• Catoctin Creek Aqueduct (Lander, MD) Restoration
• Precedent found for Rock River Bridge (Rockford, IL); the all-timber truss bridge was not unique but was an almost exact replica of an earlier bridge built "back east"
• Oregon DOT receives National Honor for Historic Bridge Program.
• The Evolution of the American Street Sweeper
• Ford Powerhouse Restoration (The Pettibone Creek Hydro-electric Station (Milford, MI)

• Little-known Watt Steam Engine in America, located in Des Plaines, IL
• Review of the 2006 SIA Annual Meeting held in St. Louis
• Minutes of the 2006 Annual Meeting. St. Louis, June 3, 2006
• 2006 Vogel Prize Winner - Pauline Dejardins
• Catalan Forge (Ripoll, Spain) Exhibit dedicated
• Update on B&O's Martinsburg (WV) Roundhouse
• Great Northern Railyway business car No. A-22 Restoration Project at the Mid-Continent Railway Historical Society in North Freedom, WI.
• Two of the World's Oldest Cantilever Bridges are in the U.S. (Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad Bridge - which crosses the Hudson River below Albany, NY, 80 miles north of NYC & the Young's High Bridge - linking Lawrenceburg & Versailles, Kentucky.

• Documenting Ford's Model T Design Room (Piquette Ave. Plant, Detroit, MI
• Fort Screven, Georgia, Coast Artillery Fort becomes Coastal Resort. (located Typee Island, near Savannah, GA
• Eldean Covered Bridge Rehabilitation, erected by the Hamilton Brothers for Miami County halfway between Piqua & Troy, Ohio
• The Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation dedicated to celebrating Yankee Ingenuity. Drum manufacturer locatted in Granville, MA
• Rehabilitation of the Hadley Bow Bridge, located in the Town of Hadley, Saratoga, NY