National Museum of Industrial History at Bethlehem Steel
Short vid of the way things used to be at Bethlehem Steel. Took a trip recently to Bethlehem Steel and shot a nostalgic video capturing the power behind the machines.
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Bethlehem Steel
A video about the history of Bethlehem Steel, a company that started in Pennsylvania.
FOCUS: Season 2 | Episode 27 South Bethlehem
On this episode of FOCUS we climb atop the Hoover Mason Trestle for a unique view of the Bethlehem Steel Blast Furnaces and walk through the history of this unique landmark. Plus, a look at how the arts, entertainment and educational communities in the area respond to a growing number of Asian residents and visitors. These stories plus, and update on the National Museum of Industrial History from its new Executive Director.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation: Building the American Dream
This documentary describes the history of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. This documentary competed in the National History Day Competition in 2015 at the State level and placed in the final six. The theme for National History Day 2015 was Leadership and Legacy.
Allentown, Pennsylvania | Wikipedia audio article
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Allentown, Pennsylvania
00:01:55 1 History
00:02:03 1.1 Origins
00:03:39 1.2 Founding
00:06:28 1.3 American Revolutionary War
00:09:11 1.3.1 Liberty Bell
00:11:06 1.4 Early Allentown
00:15:11 1.5 Civil War
00:17:57 1.5.1 47th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
00:19:54 1.6 Industrialization
00:27:59 1.7 Late 20th century
00:31:47 1.8 21st century
00:33:35 2 Geography
00:33:44 2.1 Topography
00:35:05 2.2 Cityscape and neighborhoods
00:37:41 2.2.1 Architecture
00:40:36 2.3 Climate
00:42:13 3 Demographics
00:45:46 3.1 Crime
00:46:24 4 Economy
00:47:32 5 Arts and culture
00:47:41 5.1 Museums and cultural organizations
00:47:51 5.2 Festivals
00:48:41 5.3 Arts and entertainment
00:50:52 5.4 Landmarks and popular locations
00:51:23 5.5 Cuisine
00:52:50 6 Sports
00:55:07 7 Parks and recreation
00:56:54 8 Government
00:58:21 9 Education
00:58:30 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:02:18 9.2 Colleges and universities
01:03:04 10 Media
01:04:40 11 Infrastructure
01:04:49 11.1 Transportation
01:04:57 11.1.1 Roads and buses
01:06:36 11.1.2 Rail
01:08:12 11.1.3 Airports
01:08:50 11.2 Utilities
01:09:35 11.3 Health care
01:10:03 11.4 Fire department
01:10:19 12 Notable people
01:14:31 13 In popular culture
01:15:18 14 See also
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- Socrates
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Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel) is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city and the 231st largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently the fastest growing city in all of Pennsylvania. It is the largest city in the metropolitan area known as the Lehigh Valley, which had a population of 821,623 residents as of 2010. Allentown constitutes a portion of the New York City Combined Statistical Area and is the county seat of Lehigh County. In 2012, the city celebrated the 250th anniversary of its founding in 1762.Located on the Lehigh River, Allentown is the largest of three adjacent cities, in Northampton and Lehigh counties, that make up a region of eastern Pennsylvania known as the Lehigh Valley, the other two cities being Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Easton, Pennsylvania. Allentown is 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of Philadelphia, the sixth most populous city in the United States, 90 miles (140 km) east-northeast of Harrisburg, the state capital, and 90 miles (140 km) west of New York City, the nation's largest city.
The Norfolk Southern Railway's Lehigh Line (formerly the main line of the Lehigh Valley Railroad using former Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad main line trackage), runs through Allentown heading east across the Delaware River. The Norfolk Southern Railway's Reading Line runs through Allentown heading west to Reading, Pennsylvania.
Allentown was cited as a national success story in April 2016 by the Urban Land Institute for its downtown redevelopment and transformation, one of only six communities in the country to have been named as such.
The Lehigh Canal
This video is about the Lehigh Canal. It also features an explanation of how locks work.
The Railroad Museum has become a Smithsonian Affiliate
Smithsonian Affiliations has accepted the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania as its newest member. The partnership will serve as a marketing tool that promises to boost foot traffic at the museum.
A Piece of Bethlehem Steel's history is now mine!
It has been 2 1/2 months since Martin Tower was imploded, but the memories are still fresh. It is hard to drive around the Lehigh Valley without noticing its absence. This video is my personal farewell to the tower, and I timed it to coincide with a special purchase.
The National Museum of Industrial History is now selling bricks from Martin Tower. The bricks were retrieved after the implosion from the building's base which served as a parking garage and loading dock.
I drove to the museum bright and early Saturday morning, which was a smart move because the supply of bricks was already running low. They assured me there will be plenty more coming soon for those who wish to buy them.
The bricks sell for $25 apiece and 100% of the sale benefits the museum's educational programs and future exhibits. You can own your own piece of Bethlehem Steel history by visiting the NMIH:
Hotel Bethlehem History
An example of Module 2 of a multiple-module video project for the Historic Hotel Bethlehem of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
This module is about the history of the historic hotel.
The video has multiple uses and required the sections to be able to stand independently for use on specific web pages on the hotel website, as well as be shown together for an overall video on the hotel's home page, the hotel in house television channel and also in the transportation shuttles.
Generation 9B
Martin Tower: The company, the history and the end
The 21-story Martin Tower opened in 1972 and was the tallest building in the Lehigh Valley. It was the headquarters for Bethlehem Steel and heart of the city that it helped build. More than four decades after the building became a fixture in this community, Martin Tower was being razed to the ground. Its silhouette along the Valley skyline was coming to an end. (Video by Andre Malok and Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com)
Roebling Museum - Roebling, NJ
Roebling Museum tells the manufacturing history behind some of the most famous suspension bridges and the people that made it possible. The Main Gate Building has exhibits on wire rope made in Roebling. It had many uses including building the George Washington Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. Grounds display equipment that helped create engineering wonders of the modern world.
Part of Bethlehem Steel to crumble down
Part of Bethlehem Steel to crumble down
The Roots of the BMNECC
The Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center (BMNECC) grew out of the Bulgaro-Macedonian Beneficial Association (BMBA), which was founded in 1930 in West Homestead, Pennsylvania. The oldest such Bulgarian organization in the United States, the original BMBA was the center of social and cultural life for Bulgarian and Macedonian immigrant families who settled in the Pittsburgh area in the early decades of the twentieth century.
The organization was a lively gathering place, with its regular schedule of social, cultural, educational and sports programs. The BMBA served immigrant families with important services to ease their integration into American society, including insurance plans that provided benefits in the event of the death of a family's breadwinner. At its height, 800 families were active in the organization.
Soon after the BMBA's founding, a subscription campaign among the membership raised money to erect the building at 449-451 West Eighth Avenue in West Homestead. Since 1935, this facility has continued to be the center of Bulgarian and Macedonian cultural activity in Western Pennsylvania.
As the earlier wave of immigrants from the Bulgarian-Macedonian region of Southeastern Europe were increasingly absorbed into the mainstream of American life and the demise of the steel industry devastated the economic vitality of the Monongahela Valley, the membership of the original BMBA dwindled. By the 1980s, the organization found itself in debt and struggling. Through tenacious work on the part of the remaining membership, the debts were gradually erased, and the organization made crucial decisions to assure its longevity for future generations.
By 1995, the leadership of the BMBA had decided to dissolve the original legal entity and in its place establish the BMNECC. The new BMNECC was created as a nonprofit corporation under Pennsylvania law, granted a tax-exempt status, 501(c)(3), and registered with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Charitable Organizations. Agreements were drawn up between the BMBA and the BMNECC detailing the donation of all physical assets, including the building and property on West Eighth Avenue, to the new organization. These assets, plus the donation of the enormous personal collection from the family of Patricia Penka French, became the foundation of the current museum, library, and archives.
DELAWARE DIVISION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CANAL LEHIGH RIVER 51994 MD
Shot over a period of 25 years by one cameraman Roy Creveling, Paradise Ditch shows the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal. After the canal was no longer useful as a means of transportation, 60 miles of it was preserved as a park. The film contains rare and historic footage of the infrastructure of the canal including a canal boat graveyard (4:30), bridges built for mule teams to travel across, locks, and more. The film also has historic footage of the canal in operation with a mule team shown at 6:20, pulling a canal boat.
The Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, more commonly called the Delaware Canal, runs parallel to the Delaware River from the Lehigh River at Easton (home of The National Canal Museum and terminal end of the Lehigh Canal) south to Bristol, as part of the solution to the United States' first energy crisis. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania built the Delaware canal to feed anthracite stone coal to energy-hungry Philadelphia as part of its transportation infrastructure building plan known as the Main Line of Public Works—a legislative initiative creating a collection of self-reinforcing internal improvements to commercial transportation capabilities.
The Delaware Canal, like the Lehigh Canal, was primarily meant to carry the fuel of choice of the day, anthracite coal, and other bulk goods such as gravel and limestone, cement, and lumber—from northeastern Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. In reverse flow, the two canals carried manufactured goods, iron products and (a few decades later) steel products to the northeastern cities. The Delaware and Lehigh Canals also connected from Easton by ferry services across the Delaware River to New Jersey and the Delaware and Raritan Canal, connecting industrial loads to New York City.
First opened in 1832, the Delaware Canal still has most of its original locks, aqueducts, and overflows.[3] Although the two canals reached their peak shipping in 1855, after which coal transport down the Lehigh corridor was taken up increasingly by railroads, the canals stayed in operation until the Great Depression in the early 1930s. According to the National Park Service, it was the longest-lived canal in the country.
It was competition from the railroad that led to a decline in barge traffic and the demise of the canal. By the 1920s, anthracite coal was waning as a source of fuel. The last commercial through traffic traveled the canal in October 1931 and the bankrupt Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company sold the canal back to the state for a nominal fee.
In 1933, a private group called The Delaware Valley Protective Association[5] (DVPA) was founded to protect the canal as a historic asset. The DVPA persuaded the state to resume maintenance of the canal in 1940, when its towpath became Theodore Roosevelt State Park. The berms were restored and the canal was refilled with water.
Through the 1940s and 1950s, the canal was left mostly untouched. In the early 1960s, however, Pennsylvania officials explored plans to pave over the canal and create a road for cars. Local residents fought for the canal's protection. In 1964, Bucks County historian and DVPA member Willis M. Rivinus wrote the first Guide to the Delaware Canal to call attention to the canal's value.
In 1976, it was designated a National Historic Landmark, helping to guarantee its preservation. The towpath itself was named an official National Recreation Trail.
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Here's Some Info About Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg is the capital city of Pennsylvania. As of 2011, the city had a population of 49,673, making it the ninth-largest city in Pennsylvania.[5] Harrisburg is also the county seat of Dauphin County[6] and lies on the east bank of the Susquehanna River, 105 miles (169 km) west-northwest of Philadelphia.
The Harrisburg-Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dauphin, Cumberland, and Perry counties, had a population of 509,074 in 2000. A July 1, 2007 estimate placed the population at 528,892, making it the fifth largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown--Bethlehem--Easton (the Lehigh Valley), and Scranton--Wilkes Barre.[7] The Harrisburg-Carlisle-Lebanon Combined Statistical Area, including both the Harrisburg-Carlisle and Lebanon Metropolitan Statistical Areas, had an estimated population of 656,781 in 2007 and was the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the state.[8]
Harrisburg played a notable role in American history during the Westward Migration, the American Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution. During part of the 19th century, the building of the Pennsylvania Canal and later the Pennsylvania Railroad allowed Harrisburg to become one of the most industrialized cities in the Northeastern United States. The U.S. Navy ship USS Harrisburg, which served from 1918 to 1919 at the end of World War I, was named in honor of the city.
In the mid-to-late 20th century, the city's economic fortunes fluctuated with its major industries consisting of government, heavy manufacturing including the production of steel, agriculture (the greater Harrisburg area is at the heart of the fertile Pennsylvania Dutch Country), and food services (nearby Hershey is home of the chocolate maker, located just 10 miles east of Harrisburg). In 1981, following contractions in the steel and dairy industries, Harrisburg was declared the second most distressed city in the nation.[9] The city subsequently experienced a resurgence under its former mayor Stephen R. Reed,[10] with nearly $3 billion in new investment realized during his lengthy tenure.[11]
The Pennsylvania Farm Show, the largest free indoor agriculture exposition in the United States, was first held in Harrisburg in 1917 and has been held there every early-to-mid January since then.[12] Harrisburg also hosts an annual outdoor sports show, the largest of its kind in North America, as well as an auto show, which features a large static display of new as well as classic cars and is renowned nationwide. Harrisburg is also known for the Three Mile Island accident, which occurred on March 28, 1979 near Middletown.
In 2010 Forbes rated Harrisburg as the second best place in the U.S. to raise a family.[13] Despite the city's recent financial troubles, in 2010 The Daily Beast website ranked 20 metropolitan areas across the country as being recession-proof, and the Harrisburg region landed at No. 7.[14] The financial stability of the region is in part due to the high concentration of state and federal government agencies. The finances of the city itself however, have been poorly managed and the city is unable to repay its bond debt which has created an ongoing fiscal crisis.
Paterson 1917: News from the Home Front exhibit at the Paterson Museum
Nick the History attends the new exhibit at the Paterson Museum titled Paterson 1917: News from the Home Front. This exhibit has photographs, memorabilia and newspaper accounts detailing Paterson's involvement in the first months after the United States entered World War 1.
Retrieved from: Bruce Balistrieri on 1/12/17
Upcoming Veterans Day Events in the Lehigh Valley
ALLENTOWN | At 11:30 a.m.on Saturday, Nov.11, the Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum will present a slide-lecture on Remembering WWI and Armistice Day.Admission is free to museum members, $8 for non-member adults and $3 for non-member children.ALLENTOWN | A free Veterans Day concert, A Salute to the Flag, will run from 9:30 to 11 a.m.Thursday, Nov.9.The concert by the Lehigh Valley Pops Orchestra will be held at Lehigh Valley Active Life, 1633 W.Elm St.Call 610-437-3700 for information.All are welcome to attend.BETHLEHEM | The community is invited to discover the untold stories of World War II as SteelStacks hosts The Greatest Generation Veterans Day event at 1 p.m.Saturday, Nov.11.The free event is at the ArtsQuest Center, 101 Founders Way.Reserve tickets in advance by calling the ArtsQuest Center Box Office at 610-332-3378 or visiting the box office.This year's special guests are Frank Lordan, who as a U.S.Army Ammunition Corporal operated a piece of artillery equipment called a proximity fuse that Patton credited with helping to win the Battle of the Bulge; First Sergeant Paul Kunkel, who as a member of the Amy's 22nd Special Services Company was among those tasked with converting Shinto shrines in occupied Japan into movie houses for U.S.troops; Bert Winzer, who was part of the U.S.Army 1st Special Service Force, the grandfather of the special forces; and Hank Kudzik, who was part of numerous submarine missions in the Pacific Ocean including the sinking of the Japanese carrier Soryu at the Battle of Midway.Moderator for the Greatest Generation event is Frank Gunter, retired U.S.Marine Corps Colonel and head of Lehigh University's Veterans Association.BETHLEHEM | Join the National Museum of Industrial History for a celebration of service to our nation on Nov.11.All veterans will receive free admission to the museum from opening at 10 a.m.until closing at 5 p.m.The museum will host a talk, Hello Vietnam: A Photographer's Perspective at 11 a.m.with Air Force photographer Ron Luckock.The museum will also display his photos from the Vietnam War.BETHLEHEM | The Valley Forge Chapter, Pennsylvania Society Sons of the American Revolution, will hold a memorial ceremony with a wreath laying at the gravesite of the unknown Revolutionary War hero at 11 a.m.Nov.11 at First Avenue and Market Street After the service, a luncheon will be held at Bravo Cucina, 950 Lehigh Valley Lifestyle Center, Whitehall.BETHLEHEM TWP.| On Saturday, Nov.11, Northampton Community College will honor veterans and service people at a retreat ceremony, reception, dinner and lecture by Phil Klay.Klay is a United States marine officer who won the National Book Award for fiction in 2014 for Redeployment, a collection of short stories recounting the experiences of soldiers and veterans who served in Iraq.The retreat ceremony will be at 4:45 p.m.in the Veterans Plaza Tribute Garden on The presentation will be at 7 p.m.in Lipkin Theatre, Kopecek Hall.EASTON | The Joint Veterans Co
Keystone Steel
Keystone Steel is a new series coming September 2011 to PCN.
We will pay tribute to those who formerly worked or are currently working in the steel industry through a series of oral histories.
Also to be included will be tours of steel mills past and present, along with other specialty programs focused on steel and its importance to the Commonwealth.
Brandywine River Museum
Mom Pop Pow visit the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA.
Bethlehem Steel Company | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:16 1 History
00:02:25 1.1 Roots: the Bethlehem Iron Company
00:02:36 1.1.1 Establishment
00:03:57 1.1.2 Growth
00:08:17 1.2 Bethlehem Steel Company
00:08:27 1.2.1 Establishment and involvement with the Bethlehem Iron Company
00:09:41 1.2.2 Operating as a subsidiary of the United States Shipbuilding Company
00:11:26 1.3 Bethlehem Steel Corporation
00:11:36 1.3.1 Establishment and early growth
00:14:09 1.3.2 1930s and 1940s
00:16:32 1.3.3 1950s and 1960s
00:18:59 1.3.4 1970s through 1990s
00:21:40 1.3.5 Closing and bankruptcy
00:25:56 2 Shipyards
00:27:25 3 Freight cars
00:28:09 4 Influence on American landmarks
00:29:39 5 Gallery
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- Socrates
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The Bethlehem Steel Corporation (commonly called Bethlehem Steel) was a steel and shipbuilding company that began operations in 1904 and was America's second-largest steel producer and largest shipbuilder.
The Bethlehem Steel roots trace back to 1857 with the establishment of the Bethlehem Iron Company; the Bethlehem Iron Company (also known as Bethlehem Iron Works or simply Bethlehem Iron) was established as the Saucona Iron Company and ceased operations in 1901. However, the Bethlehem Steel legacy began in 1899 with the formation of the first Bethlehem Steel, the Bethlehem Steel Company which was two years before the Bethlehem Iron Company ceased operations. The Bethlehem Steel Company (also known as Bethlehem Steel Works) leased all properties from the Bethlehem Iron Company from 1899 to 1901 and assumed ownership of all properties from the Bethlehem Iron Company after the Bethlehem Iron Company ceased operations.
The Bethlehem Steel Company became the primary subsidiary company of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1904. The Bethlehem Steel Company is the first Bethlehem Steel while the Bethlehem Steel Corporation is the second Bethlehem Steel; both companies existed simultaneously after 1904, but the Bethlehem Steel Company was eventually merged into the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in the 1960s.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation (using the Bethlehem Steel Company) and the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, which was also a Bethlehem Steel Corporation subsidiary, were two of the most powerful symbols of American industrial manufacturing leadership. Their demise is often cited as one of the most prominent examples of the U.S. economy's shift away from industrial manufacturing, its failure to compete with cheap foreign labor, and management's penchant for short-term profits.
After a decline in the American steel industry and other problems leading to the company's bankruptcy in 2001, the Bethlehem Steel Corporation was dissolved and the remaining assets sold to International Steel Group in 2003; Bethlehem Steel Corporation did not merge with/into International Steel Group.