Immigration and the Mill: A Look at Swedetown

When: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 7pm
Where: Granite Church - 5 North Main Street Redding, CT

Note: This event takes place at Granite Church - 5 North Main St. Redding, CT
This event is co-sponsored by the Weston History & Culture Center and Granite Church

Presentation by Samantha Fargione, Executive Director, Weston History & Culture Center

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The Gilbert & Bennett’s mill village, “Swedetown,” was an enclave of Scandinavian heritage in Weston. Listen to Samantha Kulish-Fargione discuss the community’s lasting ethnic impacts.

This lecture will be co-sponsored by Weston History & Culture Center and presented by their executive director, Samantha Fargione. Around 1900, a large contingent of Scandinavian immigrants, nearly all of whom worked for the Gilbert & Bennett Wire Mill, established a community known as “Swedetown” in Weston. An enclave of Scandinavian ethnicity and heritage, the mill village was served by the Swedish Covenant Congregational Church, and two churches in Redding – a Swedish-Finnish Lutheran Church and the Gilbert & Bennett Memorial Church.