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Windham Textile and History Museum – The Mill Museum

Windham Textile and History Museum – The Mill Museum

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      • Unlacing the Corset – Unleashing the Vote
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    • Preindustrial Textile Production
      • America’s Best-Known Textile: The Star-Spangled Banner
    • Swift Waters:
      • Swift Waters or Cedar Swamp?
      • Preindustrial Mills
        • Exploring the Relicts
      • Early Industrial Ecosystem
      • Down Sodom
      • Railroads and Mills
        • Willimantic Railroads
        • Automobile
      • Population Growth
        • Fires
        • Elm Grows
    • Din of Machines
      • Spool Tumbler
    • Captains of Industry
      • William Elliot Barrows
      • What the Jillsons Ate
      • Sewing Revolution
    • Sweat of Their Brows
      • Mills and Migrants
      • Decline of Agriculture
      • Rural Communities
      • Mill Boarding House
      • Strike
      • Irish in Connecticut
      • The Puerto Rican Experience
      • Latino Migration to Willimantic
    • Unraveled Threads
    • Peoples of the Mill Towns
      • Union Activists
        • Amy Hooker
        • Betty Tianti
      • People of Color
        • Local Black History Resources
        • Joe Ginne
        • Job & Jesse Leason
        • Lyman Jackson
        • Caesar Hall
      • Abolitionists
        • Orrin and Jerusha Robinson
        • John Brown
        • John A. Conant
      • Immigrants
        • Simon and Rena Oggins
    • Historical Atlas of Windham
    • Murals of a Mill Town
    • The Cotton Connection
    • Built to Last
      • Windham Town Hall
      • Invasion of the Chain Stores
      • Capitol Theater
      • South Park Street Plant
      • Preserving the Past
      • Endnotes to Built to Last
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      • Voices of the Mills
      • Mill Girls
      • A Builder’s Tale
      • The Flight of the Cotton Fairies
        • A Fairy at School
        • Explanatory Essay
      • Mill Documents
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        • Machinery and Schematics
        • Collapsible Ballingwinding Spindle
        • Loom Bobbin Winder
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        • Tube Cutting Machine
        • Tube Rolling Machine
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