Bricks and Stories Tours
of the historic Francis Cabot Lowell Mill
Come see an evolution of a historic textile mill
The Museum is proud to present TWO different BRICKS & STORIES programs!
FREE TO THE PUBLIC!
Bricks & Stories #1
From Bale to Bolt: The First Integrated Factory
Bricks & Stories #2
The Mills Girls:In Story & Song
UPCOMING TOURS:
Curious about the old mill complex by the river?
Discover the history and architecture of the world’s first modern factory, the 1813 Boston Manufacturing Company, which lies right in your own backyard!
Bricks and Stories #1
Walking Tour
From Bale to Bolt:
The First Integrated Factory
Learn how this maze of buildings developed from a single brick mill—and why that humble mill was a powerhouse of industry and innovation!
Hone your powers of observation as you learn to read the clues that demystify this and other mill sites in every corner of industrial New England.
What:
FREE, 75-minute guided tours with staff members of the Charles River Museum
When:
Select Fridays & Saturdays at 11:30 AM.
Where:
Tours begin at the Museum’s Visitor Entrance, on the river side of the building, beneath the Charles River Museum smokestack. Follow signs from Landry Park off of Moody Street or the footbridge behind Embassy parking.
Come learn about the first industrial mill in the United States at the Charles River Museum of Innovation and Industry.
Join us as we address the role of women in industrial America.
Bricks & Stories #2
The Mill Girls: In Story and Song
The tour explores the trials and triumphs of mill women who worked in Boston Manufacturing Company and the Boston Associates’ textile mills in Waltham and Lowell, MA.
You will hear songs written by the mill women, recorded at a Museum concert performance by historical folk singer Diane Taraz, as well as artifacts and images of the women themselves.
These working women act as a case study for industrialization in America.
Tour length: 45 minute
It is a FREE TOUR which will explore a limited section of our exhibits.
Should you wish to stay and tour the remainder of the Museum, we ask that you please pay our regular admission
