2018-2020 Exhibit
Mill and Farm:
The Two Faces of a New England Town
An exhibit of documents, photos and other artifacts illustrating the rich history of Rollinsford
About the Mill & Farm exhibit...
In the 1800s, the small town of Rollinsford was comprised of two distinct communities: the industrial mill village of Salmon Falls, largely populated by recent immigrants, and the outlying farms worked by old Yankee families. Mill and Farm: The Two Faces of a New England Town, a Colonel Paul Wentworth House exhibit, illustrated these two different aspects of life in the town in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Through the stories of individual families and through objects such as tools, account books, school records, dance cards, and photographs, the exhibit compared and contrasted the lives of Rollinsford’s farmers and mill workers. Many of the objects were on loan from private collections and had not been previously exhibited.