Free lecture on Mill Girls at Biddeford Mills Museum

The Biddeford Mills Museum is celebrating this year's Women’s History Month with a series of events and lectures, culminating in a lecture by University of New England Professor and Historian, Dr. Elizabeth DeWolfe.

Dr. DeWolfe will join the museum to discuss “The Great Turn-out of 1841, a women-led textile mill worker strike in Biddeford.”The lecture will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 29 at the Biddeford Mills Museum, 2 Main St., Building 18, Suite 230, Biddeford.

The event is open to the public and seats can be reserved via RSVP to the museum’s email address, millalumni@gmail.com. After the lecture the room will open for Q&A from the audience, and refreshments will be provided.

Please join The Biddeford Mills Museum for this exciting and informative afternoon. Come connect with community members past and present, celebrating the bravery of young women from our past.

About the Biddeford Mills Museum:

Tour historic mill buildings and connect with the past that shaped Biddeford. You will have a fascinating glimpse into a vibrant history of the textile industry, walk through rooms that were once weave sheds, and visit underground canals built in 1837, where the Saco powered the mills. For more information on the museum, go to https://biddefordmillsmuseum.org/ .