The Waterfront Museum was formerly
Lehigh Valley Barge No. 79, a
Lehigh Valley Railroad
The Lehigh Valley Railroad was a railroad built in the Northeastern United States to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Pennsylvania. The railroad was authorized on April 21, 1846 for freight and transportation of passengers, goods, w ...
barge that moved goods across the Hudson River. It dates to 1914 and is believed to be the only all-wooden Hudson River railroad barge still afloat.
It is currently docked and operated as a museum at the foot of Conover Street in Brooklyn's
Red Hook neighborhood where it provides a range of educational and entertainment programming.
It was also the location for the US premiere of Arthur Miller's ''
The Hook''.
The museum was established in 1985 following the restoration project by founder and juggler David Sharps. He subsequently relocated the barge to Red Hook where it has remained since 1994.
He continued to serve as President through the museum's first twenty-five years of operation.
See also
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List of maritime museums in the United States
List of maritime museums in the United States is a sortable list of American museums which display objects related to ships and water travel. Many of these maritime museums have museum ships in their collections. Member museums of the Council of ...
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Museums in Brooklyn
Museums established in 1985
Lehigh Valley Railroad