MUSEUM OF
OUR INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
Preserving The Industrial History Of Franklin County, Massachusetts
2
Mead Street
Greenfield, Massachusetts 01301
U.S.A.
MISSION OF THE MUSEUM
The towns of Franklin County,
Massachusetts have a rich industrial history. From Shelburne Falls
in the west, Greenfield at the center and Orange in the east, the
county's factories and mills produced cutlery, hand tools, machine
tools, taps & dies, paper, textiles and numerous other products.
The museum's mission is to preserve the physical artifacts, archival
materials and social history of industrial Franklin County and
provide related educational programs.
Museum Events
Special Exhibit: Green River Mills,
1710 - 1910
The Museum will be commemorating the 100th
anniversity
of a devasting fire that destroyed the Green River Mills, the adjacent
covered bridge
and spread into the center of Greenfield. The
Newell
Snow factory that now houses the Museum was located a few feet from
the structures that burned but was spared.
