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| This is the schedule as it appears in the brochure. Please click on the individual days for more information, links, pictures, and articles. |
| Wednesday, September 27 and Thursday, September 28 ---------------- Erie Early Bird Tour Wednesday
– Shuttle departs Pittsburgh airport at noon for Erie. After checking
in - all SIA members will meet in the lobby at 2:30 p.m. We will visit
McCormick Structural (formerly Bucyrus-Erie) followed by a stop at the
GE Transportation Rail History Museum. There are possible stops at Erie
Forge & Steel, Erie Malleable Iron, and Riley Power. The group will
convene for an SIA reception at the Erie Book Store located in the Lovell
Manufacturing building. Kathleen Cantrell, the proprietor, will briefly
discuss the adaptive reuse of this once-threatened building. The new Director
of the Erie County Historical Society, British-born Tom Beardsley, will
comment on preservation efforts for industrial structures. Dinner will
be served in Matthews Trattoria & Martini Bar, located in the same
building. Thursday –
We will start the day at the Erie Maritime Museum & US Brig Niagara.
Located in a former powerhouse on Presque Isle Bay you will see the original
steam turbine and 50-ton crane. Our next stop will be at the Erie Water
Authority, where Aaron Stankiewiz will guide us through two 1912 structures:
the filtration plant and pump house (featuring the original “Big
Bertha” Bethlehem steam pump.) We will lunch at the Pufferbelly
Restaurant, a 1903 firehouse with a bare brick interior and firefighting
equipment. Next, we will travel a short distance to Griswold Plaza with
its still operational historic post office and rail station. We will tour
Union station including the lobby, platforms and underground pedestrian
tunnel. From Griswold, the bus will travel to Youngstown arriving at the
conference hotel at approximately 5 p.m. |
Thursday, September 28 -------------------------------------------------------- Youngstown Opening Reception The reception will be hosted at the Youngstown Historical Center (a.k.a. the Steel Museum). The Steel Museum was designed by Michael Graves and opened in 1992. It also serves as a memorial to the thousands of workers who played a vital role in the steel heritage of the city. |
Friday, September 29 ----------------------------------------------------------- Process Tours Survival of Industry------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bus A – 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------__-- -----Many of the businesses we will visit on this tour managed to survive the deindustrialization of the Youngstown area by diversifying, reaching outside the region, and combining traditional modes of production with modern, even cutting-edge, technology. We will visit McDonald Steel (formerly part of US Steel), a company that now produces symmetrical and asymmetrical hot-rolled shapes. The group will also stop at Foster L B Co, where they make railroad rails. For the remainder of the tour, we will split into smaller groups for visits to Coronado Steel Co., a local foundry, and General Extrusions, producer of extruded, fabricated and finished products. The group will also split to go to Liberty Pattern and Mold, patternmaker for Coronado Steel as well as other businesses in the tri-state area, and Regal Tool and Die, a small local business with two facilities manufacturing dies and also producing finished products. We will end at the Tod Engine Foundation site where Rick Rowlands will discuss the restoration of a 1914 Tod Steam Engine saved from a local steel rolling plant. Hot Metal----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bus B – 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----The first 25 people to sign up for this tour will have the good fortune to visit WCI Steel Inc., the area's only remaining fully integrated steel mill, including hot metal. The remainder of the group will visit the General Electric Ohio Lamp Plant and Flex-Strut, where they focus on steel roll forming and the production of curtain walls. The group will also visit McDonald Steel (formerly part of US Steel), a company that now produces symmetrical and asymmetrical hot-rolled shapes. The group will also tour the Castlo Industrial Park. Owned and operated by the CASTLO Improvement Corporation that formed in 1978 to respond to the economic crisis facing the area at that time, the park consists of mostly renovated Youngstown Sheet and Tube buildings used for other industries. The group will also visit Astroshapes, a local company that focuses on aluminum extrusion. We will end the day at the Tod Engine Foundation site where Rick Rowlands will discuss the restoration of a 1914 Tod Steam Engine that was saved from a local steel rolling plant. |
Saturday, September 30 Transportation Heritage and Northern Trumbull County Vernacular Architecture and Clock Industry----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bus 1 – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------Our first stop on this tour will be the Conneaut Railroad Museum. Housed in the former New York Central depot, built in 1900, the museum features railroad memorabilia, equipment, smaller gauge models, and one of the Nickel Plate Road’s Berkshires, the #755. Following the museum, we travel to see some of Ashtabula County’s covered bridges. The afternoon session will be devoted to exploring the early history of Ohio's Western Reserve through vernacular architecture and early industry. We will stop for lunch in Kinsman, with walk-arounds of the Dr. Peter Allen House, the Kinsman CP&E Church, and the Clarence Darrow Octagon House. The remainder of the afternoon will be spent in Hartford at the 1828 Elam Jones Public House. This stop includes a tour of the restored building's interior with special emphasis on the local wooden works clock industry (1815 - 1834) and its effects on local industry and the national economy. Great Lakes and Bridges-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bus 2 – 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We will travel to Ashtabula, Ohio for a narrated tour at the Kinder Morgan Pinney Dock, the largest privately-owned dock on the Great Lakes. We will also see the Ashtabula Bascule Bridge (built in 1924 and rehabilitated in 1980), a drawbridge with a counter-balance over the Ashtabula River, the only such bridge in the state of Ohio. There will be a long stop at the Ashtabula Marine Museum, housed in the former residence of the Lighthouse Keepers and the Coast Guard Chief, built in 1871/1898. The museum has models, paintings, marine artifacts, photos of early Ashtabula Harbor, ore boats and tugs, miniature hand-made brass tools that actually work, and the world's only working scale model of a Hulett Ore Unloading Machine. The bus will stop for lunch at a local park and proceed to the northeast corner of Ashtabula County to see some of the county’s covered bridges. Banquet – 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The banquet will be held in Channing Hall at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Youngstown. Many members of the congregation, established in 1892, were involved in the steel industry. The cornerstone was laid on April 27, 1925 for this congregation's first and only permanent facility. It was designed by Barton E. Brooke, a member of the church. His inspiration was the Second Unitarian Church of Boston and the architectural style employed by the famous English architect, Christopher Wren. |
Sunday, October 1 Stayover Tour – 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Youngstown area has so many treasures that it was hard for us fit everything into two days. Those who stay over will not be disappointed! We will visit the Cherry Valley Coke Ovens in Leetonia, Ohio – a complex of nearly 200 beehive ovens. Professor and Director of the Center for Historic Preservation at Youngstown State University, Donna DeBlasio, will lead the group on a tour of company housing in Youngstown. We will also visit Mill Creek Park to see Lanterman’s Mill, Pioneer Pavilion – a woolen mill built by James Heaton in 1821 and converted into a pavilion in the early 1890s, Mill Creek Furnace, and the Old Suspension Bridge. Along the way, we will see items related to the production and manufacturing of steel that have been saved by the Mahoning Valley Railroad Historical Asssociation.
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