he Mill is preserved today only because of the generous financial support and donated goods and services from hundreds of Friends of the Old Schwamb Mill. Their gifts, grants, and contributions enabled the four visionary Founding Trustees of the Mill in 1969 to acquire and stabilize the structures and find appropriate adaptive uses for the historic buildings, to keep the Mill alive on the landscape as a unique educational resource.

Governmental support has come from:

• the United States Department of the Interior
  
  
• the Massachusetts Historical Commission
  
  
• Town of Arlington Community Development Block Grants
  
  
• the National Endowment for the Humanities
  
  
• the Arlington Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency that supports public programs in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
  
  

Help has also been received from a number of societies, organizations and associations:

• American Association of Museums
  
  
• American Association for State and Local History
  
  
• Arlington Historical Commission
  
  
• The Arlington Historical Society
  
  
• Bay State Historical League
  
  
• National Register of Historic Places
  
  
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
  
  
• New England Museum Association
  
  
• Society for Industrial Archeology
  
  
• Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities
  
  
• Society for the Preservation of Old Mills
  
  
• Society of Architectural Historians
  

The Trustees' education program is supported by the Massachusetts Department of Education as a Summer Content Institute for public school teachers' professional development.