Experience the Mill virtually with the video tours and Mill-hosted lectures below. You can also visit the Mill’s YouTube channel.

Tour the Old Schwamb Mill! (6:49). See the inner workings of this nineteenth and twentieth century woodworking factory, where oval frames are still produced today. (Video made possible by Friends of the Mill and a grant from Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area)

Creating an Old Schwamb Mill Frame (3:36). Master woodturner David W. Graf of the Old Schwamb Mill walks through the steps in construction and turning one of the mill’s oval picture frames. David uses the same period equipment the Schwambs used to make tens of thousands of frames over the Mill’s 104 year history. (Video made possible by Friends of the Mill and a grant from Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area)

Power and Machines of the Old Schwamb Mill (7:50). A close-up look at the machines and power systems of the Old Schwamb Mill: the Hercules water turbine and its rare Gillespie governor, the nineteenth-century coal boiler that once powered a steam engine and heated a wood kiln, and the moulding machine and knives that once produced the mill’s high quality picture frame moulding. (Video made possible by Friends of the Mill and a grant from Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area)

Or go right to the machine you’re interested in:

– Hercules turbine
– Gillespie governor
– coal boiler and dryhouse
– S.A. Woods moulding machine

The Old Schwamb Mill, Yesterday and Today (7:27). Learn about the four generations of the Schwamb family that ran the wood working mill, Patricia Fitzmaurice who saved it for future generations, and the mill’s educational mission today. (Video made possible by Friends of the Mill and a grant from Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area)

Learn how …

– the Schwambs came from Germany and built their mills in Arlington, Mass.
– Patricia Fitzmaurice acted to save the Old Schwamb Mill for generations to come
– the Mill thrives today as an educational resource and a community center for history and the arts