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Windham Textile and History Museum – The Mill Museum

Windham Textile and History Museum – The Mill Museum

  • About
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    • Policies and Governance Documents
      • Board of Directors’ Responsibilities
      • Bylaws
      • Code of Ethics
      • Collections Policies
      • Harassment Policy
      • Mission Statement
      • Nondiscrimination Policy
      • Personnel Policy
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    • Rentals
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  • Strategic Plan
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    • Accessibility
    • Across the Street
    • Bev York Exhibit Room
      • Thread City Exhibit QR Code Links
      • Virtual Exhibits
        • Connecticut’s Cotton Connection
        • Here All Along: African Americans
        • Latino Migration to Willimantic
        • Liberty’s Daughters
        • Murals of a Mill Town
        • Sidonia’s Thread
        • Unlacing the Corset – Unleashing the Vote
        • Unraveled Threads
    • Buildings and Grounds
    • Dunham Hall Library
    • Factory Floor Exhibit
      • Dugan Mill Audible Exhibits
        • Carding Audible Exhibit
        • Dugan Mill Audible Exhibit
        • Hilado Exhibición Audible I
        • Hilado Exhibición Audible II
        • Spinning Audible Exhibit
        • Tejido Exhibición Audible I
        • Tejido Exhibición Audible II
        • Water Power Audible Exhibit
        • Weaving Audible Exhibit I
        • Weaving Audible Exhibit II
      • Overseer’s Office Exhibit
      • Print Shop Exhibit
    • Self-Guided Tour
    • Thread Mill Square Exhibit Space
      • Company Office Exhibit
      • Mill Manager’s House Exhibit
      • Sewing Machine Exhibit
      • Workers’ House Exhibit
    • Gift Shop
  • Learn
    • Classroom Activities
    • Educational Videos
    • Museum Lyceums
      • Irish in Connecticut
    • Speakers
    • Spinning & Weaving
    • Teachers’ Resources
    • This House Can Talk
    • Newsletter Archive
  • History
    • Preindustrial Textile Production
      • America’s Best-Known Textile: The Star-Spangled Banner
      • Preindustrial Mills
        • Preindustrial Mills: Exploring the Relicts
      • Native American Place Names
    • Swift Waters: Industrialization
      • Early Industrial Ecosystem
      • Down Sodom
      • Population Growth
        • Elm-Lined Streets
        • Fires and Industry
      • Transportation
        • Automobiles
        • Railroads
    • Din of Machines
      • Sewing Revolution
      • Spool Tumblers
    • Captains of Industry: Bosses
      • William Elliot Barrows
      • What the Jillsons Ate
    • Sweat of Their Brows: Workers
      • Yankees: Decline of Agriculture
      • Yankees: Rural Communities
      • Puerto Ricans
      • Mill Boarding House
      • 1925 ATCO Strike
    • Peoples of the Mill Towns
      • Abolitionists & Other Reformers
        • John Brown
        • John A. Conant
        • Orrin and Jerusha Robinson
      • Immigrants
        • Edward Francis Gallivan
        • Simon & Rena Oggins
      • People of Color
        • Local Black History Resources
        • Caesar & Julia Hall
        • Jo
        • Job & Jesse Leason
        • Lyman & Clarissa Jackson
      • Union Activists
        • Amy Hooker
        • Betty Tianti
      • William Weaver
    • Windham History
      • Built to Last
        • Capitol Theater
        • Invasion of the Chain Stores
        • Preserving the Past: The Mill Museum
        • South Park Street Plant
        • Windham Town Hall
        • Endnotes to Built to Last
      • Historical Atlas of Windham
    • History Links
    • Primary Sources
      • History of Ancient Windham, CT
      • Builder’s Tale
      • Flight of the Cotton Fairies
        • Fairy at School
        • Explanatory Essay
      • Loom and Spindle
      • Mill Town Documents
        • Labels and Receipts
        • Collapsible Ballwinding Spindle
        • Picker Notebook
        • Tube Cutting Machine
        • Tube Rolling Machine
        • Practice Money
        • Stocks
        • Trade Cards
      • Oral History Interviews
      • Windham Frog Fight
    • Town Historian’s Blog
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PEOPLES OF THE MILL TOWNS: IMMIGRANTS AND MIGRANTS

 

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  • EDWARD FRANCIS GALLIVAN: IRISH AMERICAN MILL WORKER
  • SIMON AND RENA OGGINS: JEWISH IMMIGRANTS FROM LITHUANIA

 

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Open Sat-Sun, 10-4
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