THE LITTLE RED SHOP MUSEUM

The Little Red Shop Museum is located along the banks of the Mill River in historic Hopedale, Massachusetts. It was officially opened to the public as the Blackstone Valley's newest museum in October 2009, after an extensive renovation and restoration project... The Little Red Shop Museum holds artifacts related to the town's development, the region, and the textile industry (in which Hopedale played a starring role). However, unlike our cousins to the north (The Lowell National Historical Park, The American Textile History Museum) and the south (The Slater Mill), the Little Red Shop Museum is not a museum about cloth production. The Little Red Shop began as a machine shop, and the Draper Corporation, which it became, produced the looms used all over the world to create high-quality, cotton-woven fabrics.

Also known as: Little Red Shop Museum

Primary location: Hopedale United States