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This comes 19 years after about 57 Irish immigrants working for Pennsylvania Railroad were found at Duffy’s Cut in Malvern in a mass grave. Some died from cholera, while others were murdered ...
Perhaps the best-known instance of an Irish railroad workers mass grave can be found in Duffy's Cut, PA, which first made headlines 12 years ago when brothers Doctors Frank and William Watson ...
The railroad that the Irish were building connected Louisville, Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee through Houston County. The line was finished two days before the beginning of the Civil War and ...
The site at Downingtown is close to Duffy's Cut, where another mass grave of Irish immigrants was previously found.
Death on the Railroad is a classic story involving foul play, cover ups, a murder mystery and a voyage of discovery to understand what happened to a group of Irish men who came to America for a ...
BLOOMINGTON — Bloomington’s old west side is inextricably linked with the Chicago & Alton Railroad and the Irish immigrants that came along for the ride, so to speak, to lay ...
Utah is about to throw a big celebration for the 150th anniversary of the May 10, 1869, completion of the transcontinental railroad. Many realize it was built largely by Chinese immigrants for the ...
The Irish Railroad Workers Museum on Lemmon St. (Lloyd Fox/Staff) The name of Maryland largest city is derived from the Gaelic “Baile-an-ti-mor,” meaning town of the big house.
The surviving Irish railroad workers buried their comrades, never knowing what had happened to them. After the remaining men died, Duffy had their bodies interred in a hidden mass grave.
This comes 19 years after about 57 Irish immigrants working for Pennsylvania Railroad were found at Duffy’s Cut in Malvern in a mass grave. Some died from cholera, while others were murdered.
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