PRESENTS on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2015, in PATERSON, NJ:

THE GREAT FALLS SYMPOSIUMon the Industrial Archeology of the New York – New Jersey Area

9:00 REGISTRATION, COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS9:50 WELCOME – Joe Macasek, President, Roebling Chapter, Society for Industrial Archeology and President, Canal Society of New Jersey10:00 PATERSON’S OFF-HOURS LANDSCAPE: A REASSESSMENT OF THE DUBLIN NEIGHBORHOOD Patrick Harshbarger, Vice-President, Hunter Research 10:30 EUROPEAN RE-PURPOSING OF UNUSED INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES Sandy Needham, Vice-President, RCSIA11:00 DEATH OF THE HUBER BREAKER: THE LOSS OF AN ANTHRACITE ICON Bode Morin, Ph.D. Eckley Miner’s Village, PA Historical Museum Commission11:30 GREAT FALLS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK NEWS Darren Boch, Superintendent, Great Falls National Historical Park 11:45 LUNCH and vendors’ tables 1:00 FILMS Working Places: What Can You Do With Paterson’s Old Mills? 1978, 15 min. Beyond the Breaker, 2015, 15 min.1:30 ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ROEBLING AWARD PRESENTATION Presented by Bierce Riley, M.B.A., Past President, RCSIA2:00 DONALD ROEBLING’S ALLIGATOR: DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMPHIBIAN TRACTOR Bierce Riley, M.B.A., Past President, RCSIA2:30 STATIC SPACES EX-POSED: SITE SPECIFIC ART INSTALLATIONS IN THE ROGERS LOCOMOTIVE WORKS AND BEYOND Joseph Gerard Sabatino, sculptor and artist3:00 BREAK 3:30 PRESERVING OUR INDUSTRIAL PAST THROUGH THE PRIVATE SECTOR: CASE STUDIES IN FREE MARKET ADAPTIVE RE-USE Terry L. Bailey, R.A. LEED AP, IVI Assessment Services4:00 THE ARTHUR KILL: THE INDUSTRIAL ALLEY THAT TWO STATES SHARE Thomas Flagg, MA, Past President, RCSIA4:30 INDUSTRIALISTS AT REST: CEDAR LAWN CEMETERY, PATERSON, NJ Kelly C. Ruffel, MA, Historic Preservation Specialist, City of Paterson5:00 CLOSING REMARKS – Joe Macasek, President 5:15 WALKING TOUR of the Dublin Historic District - Patrick Harshbarger & G. Archimede

11:00 DEATH OF THE HUBER BREAKER: THE LOSS OF AN ANTHRACITE ICON Bode Morin, Ph.D., Eckley Miners Village The Huber Breaker was one of the last and largest An-thracite coal breakers in North East Pennsylvania. Built in 1939, its function was to wash, break, size, and dis-tribute coal from several linked collieries. It operated until 1976. The Huber was one of the most sophisti-cated of the hundreds of similar structures constructed to process the region’s particular type of hard coal. An

iconic structure, it did not last to see the fall of 2014 when the Huber and its support struc-tures were demolished for their scrap value. While many industrial sites are lost following their useful period, many others are saved either as monuments or with a new function all the while serving as a physical reminder of the recent history of the region. This paper will ex-amine the factors that led to the construction, decline, and ultimate demolition of the Huber Breaker and explore how losses like this may be better fought in the future.

10:00 PATERSON’S OFF HOURS LANDSCAPE: A REASSESSMENT OF THE DUBLIN NEIGHBORHOODPatrick Harshbarger, Vice President, Hunter Research The Dublin neighborhood contains some of Paterson’s oldest vernacular workers’ housing and thus comple-ments the nearby historic mills and waterpower race-ways of the Great Falls. Quite possibly, Dublin can boast the largest concentration of pre-Civil War urban factory housing surviving in New Jersey. Dublin is outstanding for its long association with the immigrant experience,

from the Irish and Italian mill workers of past centuries to the Dominicans, Peruvians and Serbs who make up its population today. This presentation will review a recent historic survey that follows on some of the initial work that Ed Rutsch and others completed in the 1970s.

10:30 EUROPEAN RE-PURPOSING OF UNUSED INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURES Sandy Needham, Vice-President, RCSIA Europe has many of the same issues as the U.S. with its legacy of industrial buildings, some of considerable historical and social interest. In town centers, which are generally more vibrant in Europe as compared with the U.S., banks are turning into bars and restaurants and factories and offices into residential opportunities. In-dustrial buildings, however, have generally been situat-

ed in areas away from city centers and can present a greater challenge for reuse. In many plac-es there were severe impacts caused by the two World Wars which damaged infrastructure, realigned industrial priorities – and killed many workers. We will look at the bold re-purposing of some prominent structures in the areas of Calais, Dunkirk and Lille in northern France. This was the heartland of industry of France, with coal and iron ore traditionally mined here and cotton and other textiles being manufactured with steam power coming from coal.

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1:00 FILMS: WORKING PLACES: WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH PATERSON’S OLD INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS? (1974) BEYOND THE BREAKER (2015)

Working Places is a federally-funded documentary slide-film that was sponsored by the Society for Industrial Archeology in 1974. Producer John Karol photographed old industrial buildings and districts from coast to coast. Most of the ones shown in the film were rehabil-itated with new industrial functions, or as apartments,

shopping centers and restaurants. What they said about the “adaptive reuse” of industrial buildings may surprise you. Beyond the Breaker is a documentary film produced and directed by John Welsh exploring the abandoned conditions and history of the Huber Breaker prior to its demolition in 2014. About 15 minutes of each film will be shown.

2:00 DONALD ROEBLING’S ALLIGATOR: DEvELOPMENT OF THE AMPHIBIAN TRACTOR Bierce Riley, M.B.A., Past President, RCSIA Washington Roebling’s grandson, Donald (1908–1959), was mechanically brilliant, but had no interest in studying engineering as his father and grandfather had done. At age 20, he built a waterfront estate in Clearwater, Florida, where he resided for the rest of his life; the estate included a large machine shop. After a

series of hurricanes devastated the Florida interior, John A. Roebling II sent his estate workers to assist in rescue efforts around Lake Okeechobee. However, those attempts were hindered by water levels too high for road vehicles and too low for motorized boats. Challenged by his father to create a land-and-water rescue vehicle, Donald built Alligators 1, 2, and 3 in his machine shop over a five-year period, with each model being lighter and more agile. The de-sign was given to the U.S. military and proved crucial to the Marines for island landings in the Pacific during World War II.

2:30 STATIC SPACES EX-POSED: SITE SPECIFIC ART INSTALLATIONS IN THE ROGERS LOCOMOTIVE WORKS AND BEYOND Joseph Gerard Sabatino, sculptor and artist

Mr. Sabatino will be discuss various projects and site specific art installations created over the years in Pat-erson, NJ and beyond. The artist will showcase a slide presentation of work produced within the historical walls of The Paterson Museum, as well as The Roger’s Locomotive & Machine Works Complex. Additionally,

the artist will be presenting images of a recent installation fabricated in the Veneto region of Italy. The structural aesthetics of The Museo della Bonfica di Cà Vendramin could literally be a sister facility and backstory to Paterson - where water, land and steel are used to control and disperse its aggressive, yet valuable course.

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4:30 INDUSTRIALISTS AT REST: CEDAR LAWN CEMETERY, PATERSON, NJ Kelly C. Ruffel, MA, HPS City of Paterson

Who would have guessed that thirty-seven years after the first construction of a garden-like cemetery, more would develop in urban areas around the United States, creating a phenomenon that would forever change the way we view and utilize the landscape. This concept is evident at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey. Cedar Lawn is a prime example of how cemeteries are among the most valuable of archaeological and historic

resources. It reflects the cultural values and practices of the past, and is evidence of cultural and religious influences, economic development, and social relationships. Furthermore, Cedar Lawn represents a strong reminder of legacy, the legacy of men who helped build America and the men who turned a small farm town into one of the largest industrial centers in the world. This presen-tation discusses the impact of the rural cemetery movement on choosing a final resting place, featuring Thomas Rogers, Rosewell Colt, Catholina Lambert, John Ryle and Charles Danforth.

3:30 PRESERvING OUR INDUSTRIAL PAST THROUGH THE PRIvATE SECTOR: CASE STUDIES IN FREE MARKET ADAPTIvE RE-USE Terry L. Bailey, R.A. LEED AP, IVI Assessment Serv. This presentation explores success and failures of adaptive re-use in the private sector through several case studies of adaptive re-use, including a porcelain kiln and silk manufacturing plant. Overview histories and key features of each site will be presented and fea-tures that contribute to success explored.

4:00 THE ARTHUR KILL: THE INDUSTRIAL ALLEY THAT TWO STATES SHARE Thomas Flagg, MA, Past President, RCSIA

The Arthur Kill is a section of the Port of NY&NJ that can accommodate ocean-going vessels, yet is far from urban centers; hence the term “backwater channel”. It was therefore a natural location for industries such as copper refineries, chemical processors and recycling, and was host to industrial pioneers in both states. Like

the many gulls there, we will look at this landscape from the air and from the water.

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