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Left Panel

LEFT PANEL

1) The Brooklyn Bridge, a cable suspension bridge designed and built by the German-born engineer,
John Augustus Roebling.

2) "Washington’s Retreat," a building named for the General, which served as a recreation center on
Mill Hill
Pond, a popular boating site from the late 1840’s to the early 1870’s.

3) Icemen harvesting cubes of ice from the Mill Hill Pond.

4) Family skaters on Mill Hill pond.

5) Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company barges bringing Pennsylvania coal to Trenton on the Lehigh,
Delaware, and D&R canals

6) Fisherman have enjoyed fishing on the Canal and on the Delaware, and hopefully catching dinner,
for centuries.

7) A steam engine pulling a cargo of Roebling wire rope over the magnificent Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware River Bridge, completed in 1903.

8) A Delaware River steamboat transporting passengers and cargo to and from Trenton.

9) Log rafting down the Delaware River, bringing saw logs from Pennsylvania and New York forests to
Trenton.

10) Digging the D&R Canal seven feet deep through Trenton, mostly by Irish immigrant hands, in the
early 1830s.

Center Panel

1) Pottery kiln chimneys like those of Lenox once dominated parts of Trenton.

2) Workers glazing stacks of ceramics in daylit work rooms.

3) Pottery workers known as ‘Cheeseheads’ carried air-dried ceramics on their heads in baskets to kilns for bisque firing.

4) A wire drawer in a wire mill pulling wire through a hardened die to set up wire drawing on a drawing bench.

5) A furnace ladle pouring molten iron into molds.

6) An 1838 steam boiler design by John A. Roebling.

7) A wire rope coil on display by the John A Roebling’s Sons Company at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia,1876.

8) Textile mill worker with steam driven looms.

9) Blacksmith working at a Fisher Norris anvil. Originally called the Eagle Anvil Company, the Fisher-Norris Anvil Company (1843-1979) patented its process of welding a tool steel plate onto a cast iron body in the mold as the anvil was cast, and became the first large scale manufacturer of anvils in the U.S.

10) 1909 Rope Layer, aka wire rope machine, ‘laid’ or twisted strands of wire around a core strand to form wire rope.

11) Factory workers with tools of their trades.

12) John A. Roebling, 1806-1869, Trenton’s brilliant engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, designed suspension bridges, buildings, and machines, kept his own financial journals, and in his spare time studied and wrote about science and philosophy and played the violin and piano. In his lifetime he became the world’s greatest suspension bridge engineer and started a manufacturing business that prospered through four generations.

13) Knee wall with industrial scenes depicting raw materials coming in to Trenton and finished goods going out - “Trenton Makes, the World Takes.”

Right Panel

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'Trenton Makes'

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Mural Proposal

2018

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