Museum L-A is a great place for teachers and students of all ages!

Learn about:

• Local and immigrant mill workers
• The Industrial Revolution
• Textile manufacturing process
• Child labor
• Machinery -then and now
• Urban growth
• Civil War impact on production
• Shoe shops made 25,000,000 pair (1922)
• Production and foreign competition
• Employees buy out of Bates Mfg.
• The closing of seven mills