Bangor Quarry Hoist

05/05/2025

The Bangor Borough 150th Anniversary Celebration is coming up soon. https://www.facebook.com/BangorBorough150/ To help mark the event, the Bangor Quarry Hoist will be running the following days during the Celebration. Run times are approximate:
Saturday, June 7, 11 AM to 3 PM
Sunday, June 8, 2 PM (during and immediately after the parade)
Thursday, June 12, 6 PM to 7 PM
Be sure to visit the Slate Belt Heritage Center next door! https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064737994573
The Heritage Center will have special extended hours and events for the 150th.

10/12/2023

The Bangor Quarry Hoist will be running Thursday and Friday, October 12th and 13th, just after 6 PM as a lead in to the Slate Belt Heritage Center's Haunted Heritage Ghost Show. The Hoist run is free for anyone to attend. Tickets are still available for purchase for the remainder of the program, to be held inside the Heritage Center.

The Slate Belt Heritage Center - SBHC is holding its annual Haunted Heritage Ghost Show on Thursday and Friday.

Guests will meet at 6 p.m. at the HOIST (next to the Heritage Center) for some gruesome stories, then a real live TOMMY KNOCKER will lead you upstairs to the SECRET CHAMBER where ghosts of Slate Belt residents will tell their stories. You will meet GRAND POOPA’, the TOMMY KNOCKER, Chapman Quarry’s William Chapman, Bangor’s Mrs. Robert Steinmetz and Mr. Welsh Day Albert Foulkes. Come and join the fun!

Haunted Heritage Ghost Show
Thursday, October 12 & Friday, October 13
Stories at the hoist at 6:00 p.m., Haunted Heritage Ghost Show at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets can be purchased at the door or at Brays News Stand in advance.
Slate Belt Heritage Center, 30 N 1st Street, Bangor, PA 18013
http://slatebeltheritage.net/

09/24/2023

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/news/2023/09/lehigh-valley-projects-earn-state-recognition-for-historical-preservation-efforts.html

The nonprofit Preservation Pennsylvania honored two local projects with 2023 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards.

09/24/2023

Lehigh Valley projects earn state recognition for historical preservation efforts

The nonprofit Preservation Pennsylvania honored two local projects with 2023 Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards.

09/07/2023

The Quarry Hoist Pavilion, as part of the Slate Belt History Project, will be recognized in Harrisburg, PA, on Oct 19th, 2023, as winner of Preservation Pennsylvania's LEADERSHIP AWARD FOR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT!

The Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards recognize excellence in the field of preservation and this year’s list boasts some remarkable achievements!

04/20/2023

https://youtu.be/PGgey6-iEag

As you know we're getting ready to dedicate the Quarry Hoist and Pavilion this saturday. I thought I'd re-post Lois Silver's documentary made by our host organization, Totts Gap Arts Institute.

Film maker Lois Silver's documentary short of the history of the slate industry in and around Bangor and Pen Argyl, PA. The film was created as the third el...

04/05/2023

The Bangor Quarry Hoist Pavilion will be dedicated on Saturday, April 22, at 11 AM. Invitations are still going out, but we look forward to seeing all of you at the event. The program will be as follows:
11 AM dedication
12 noon Hoist demonstration run
1 PM timber framing demonstration
1:30 PM slate splitting demonstration
2 PM Hoist demonstration run

The Slate Belt Heritage Center (adjacent to the Hoist) will be open from 12 - 3. They will serve light snacks, have special displays of Flory Manufacturing material, and a continuous slideshow that highlights the life of the Hoist from the quarry to its new home. Extra parking will be available in the lot north of the building next to the Heritage Center.

The first five fence panels were installed today by volunteers from Serene Scene Landscaping and more fence panels will go up next week. The pavilion will look great for the dedication.

10/02/2022

The past two weeks saw a lot of activity on and off site. The board and batten siding under the monitor was installed, completing the last pieces of woodwork on the pavilion. P. H. Barron Welding in Easton, PA, the oldest welding fabrication business in The United States, made angle iron brackets for the fence. Other volunteers attached the brackets to the fence posts and primed them.

09/13/2022

Thanks to the volunteer work of J. Wilson Enterprises Inc., the slate roof of the Bangor Hoist Pavilion is complete! Stay tuned for finishing touches and fencing.

07/23/2022

The Hoist will be running from noon to 3 PM today (Saturday, July 23, 2022) for Passport to History Month Weekend.

06/05/2022

Volunteers made great progress today, installing the monitor windows and the front siding on the pavilion.

04/25/2022

Over the Spring and Summer, we can expect continued progress at the Bangor Quarry Hoist. Some projects, such as the completion of the roof and fence, will be especially visible, but others will require a closer look. For example, the brand new oil cups currently in production. Originally made of brass and missing from the Hoist for decades, the new oil cups are being 3D printed from plastic by a volunteer. From a safe viewing distance, they look just like typical oil cups found on Flory Hoists.