Lowell Lecture
MILL TALK - "Almost a Riot: Irish Labor & Working Conditions on the Canals & Railroads"
Date & Time
April 7, 2022 at 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Located in the Historic Francis Cabot Lowell Mill
Park in the Embassy Theatre Lot — GPS "42 Cooper Street, Waltham"
154 Moody Street Waltham, MA 02453
Driving Directions
Speaker(s)
Kate Viens, PhD
Presenting Organization
Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation
Topics
Contact
Kate Viens (kate.viens@charlesrivermuseum.org, 781-893-5410)
It’s Francis Cabot Lowell’s birthday! Join us at the 1814 mill site where Lowell and his peers pioneered the integrated cotton manufacturing that served as the model for the Lowell, MA industry. Learn what it was like to build the canals and early railroads, and how Irish workers rose up to challenge low wages and unsafe working conditions. Their experiences gave these men and their families an enduring place in American life.
This Mill Talk is one of a collaborative series of heritage events celebrating the bicentennial of Hugh Cummiskey and his Irish laborers arriving in what would become Lowell, Massachusetts to dig the famous Lowell canal system.