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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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The War of Races

THE WAR OF RACES.– A party of negro men from Washington and Baltimore were one day last week sent to Newtown to work upon a section of the W. & S. R. R. lately given to […]
August 14, 1869
December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025

The Fifteenth Amendment

THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.The number of States which have passed the Fifteenth Amendment is twenty-one, and of these, four cannot be regarded as having legally ratified it. The St. Louis Republican (Democratic) accuses the Radical papers of […]
July 27, 1869
August 1, 2023
August 1, 2023

Disturbances in Winchester

DISTURBANCES IN WINCHESTER.— On Sunday afternoon week quite, a serious row occurred at the depot in Winchester between a party of Irish laborers who had arrived there to go to work on the Strasburg railroad and […]
July 20, 1869
December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025

Riot at Winchester Depot

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS.– On Saturday night last, a number of negroes waylaid an Irish citizen near the Cemetery, and beat him in an outrageous manner. Upon this fact being ascertained on the Sabbath, there was some excitement […]
July 17, 1869
August 1, 2023
August 1, 2023

KILLED. — Mr. Thomas Hand

KILLED.–Mr. Thomas Hand, an Irish laborer, who worked several months in this town during the spring and summer, was instantly killed by a premature explosion whilst blasting rock near the residence of Mr. Jas. V. Moore, […]
October 6, 1868
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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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