Factory on Fire Reading List

If you are planning on attending “Factory on Fire” with your family, you may want to look at the reading list the Children’s Room has created. You will find many intriguing books on what life was like for young girls in who worked in the mills.

The Library also has scanned many historical photographs of the Dover mills, as well as the fire that will be depicted in “Factory on Fire”. http://images.dover.lib.nh.us/mills.htm If you would like to know the history of the Dover mills, the famous strike of the mill girls, and the fire, take a look at http://www.dover.lib.nh.us/DoverHistory/cityof.htm

For those of you who don’t know, “Factory on Fire! The Cocheco Mill Blaze of 1907 Revealed” is a historic reenactment of Dover’s disastrous mill fire of January 26, 1907 and the court trial that followed. It is an event not to be missed!