Barre's Old Labor Hall

The Socialist Labor Party Hall

Home of the Barre Historical Society

Welcome to the website of the Barre Historical Society, owner of the Socialist Labor Party Hall National Historic Landmark. Here you can find information about the history of the the Hall, about renting the Hall for your event, about how you can help the Barre Historical Society preserve the Hall.

  BIG NEWS!

Barre Historical  Society Trustee and historian Paul Heller's new book "Granite City Tales" has recenty been published.

The real-life characters featured run the gamut from famous Folk Medicine author Dr. D.C. Jarvis to anarchist Luigi Galleani, from Barre's Chief of Police Patrick Brown and civil war soldier Lemuel Abbot to labor organizer Mother Jones and Socialist mayor Fred Suitor to renown movie director Alfred Hitchock and President Theodore Roosevelt. From bank robbery to big league baseball, all human life is there.

Books purchased through the Union Cooperative Store on this website will be signed by the author.

Through the amazing generousity of the author, the entire price of the book will go to support the Old Labor Hall. 



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Where Have the Lawrence Strikers' Children Gone?

The last of the Bread and Roses strikers' children took the train from the Barre Depot Square back to Lawrence on March 30, 1900.  

   To find out more about Barre's part in the Lawrence Strike, visit our Bread and Roses history pages.