Ghost Stories of the Mill: Do You Have One?
The Duck Bridge and the Ayer Mill on the Merrimack. Photo: PerriAndMe, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Every old mill has its stories, and this one has had more than a century to collect them.
The Wood Mill opened in 1906 with about 7,000 people working inside. For decades, shifts ran into the night. The looms were loud, the floors were long, and the river ran right past the windows. Then, after the textile industry left Lawrence in the 1950s, much of the complex sat quiet for years.
Buildings like this make people wonder
Footsteps on an empty floor. A freight elevator that seems to move on its own. A light left on in a room no one has used all day. Ask anyone who has worked a late night in an old mill, and they'll probably have a story.
So we're asking. Have you heard something you couldn't explain at Riverwalk? Seen something odd from a window over the river? Heard a tale from a parent or grandparent who worked in the Wood Mill or the Ayer Mill?
Share your story
Call the Riverwalk office at 978.645.6260 or stop by the Property Management Office at 280 Merrimack Street, Suite 101, and tell us what you know. We'll share our favorites here. Spooky or not, every story is part of the history of this place.
