Community leader and historic preservation advocate, Patricia Cunningham Fitzmaurice (1923-2001) is credited with saving the historic Schwamb Mill in Arlington, Massachusetts, the oldest, continuously operating mill site in the United States. When the mill closed in 1969, Fitzmaurice established the Schwamb Mill Preservation Trust, filed for recognition from the US Department of the Interior to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and tirelessly advocated within the community to raise funds for the mill’s preservation. Her vision realized, the mill exists today as a museum and continues to create made-to-order, hand turned, wooden frames using the original 1860s belt-driven oval lathes in their original setting.