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Laborers

Explore the lives of laborers in the Harpers Ferry region and Jefferson County, WV, including workmen connected to quarries, transportation and infrastructure, and local industry.

This topic appears in 86 indexed records between 1831 and 1960.
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1960 Latest Record
Harpers Ferry Strongest Location
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Duffield; Harvest of 5k Bushels without Ardent Spirits

We think it proper to mention a fact, which the temperance Societies will hail with much pleasure, and which will afford the friends of morality and of man, every where, great gratification. RICHARD DUFFIELD, Esq. last […]
July 18, 1833
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June 14, 2026

Curtailing of Wages of National Armories

FOR THE FREE PRESSThe Curtailing of the Mechanics’ Wages at Harpers-Ferry. The proposed reduction of the prices at their place, is a subject that has enlisted the deepest solicitude of every member of our highly respectable […]
June 20, 1833
June 14, 2026
June 14, 2026

On the Reduction of Armory Wages

REDUCTION OF WAGES.We learn, with much regret, that peremptory orders have been received from the War Department, to reduce the wages of the artiz[s]ans employed in the Armory at Harpers-Ferry, twenty per cent.. This is a […]
May 23, 1833
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June 14, 2026

Canal to be Opened in May

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.— We learn with pleasure, from a source to be entirely relied upon, that the progress of the work upon the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has been such within a few months past, […]
February 14, 1833
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June 14, 2026

Canal Progress; Laborer Numbers

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.— There are one hundred and two miles of the Canal let out, under an obligation, on the part of a selected body of contractors, to finish it by the first day of […]
February 7, 1833
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 29 records
1860s 7 records
1840s 7 records
1900s 6 records
1910s 6 records
1850s 5 records

Frequently Associated Families

These surnames most commonly appear alongside the topic "Laborers" across historical collections.

Welsh
4 records
Moore
2 records
Strider
2 records
Higgins
2 records
Keller
2 records
Eichelberger
2 records
Giffin
2 records
Houser
2 records
Cook
2 records
Smith
2 records
Williams
2 records
Willis
2 records
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