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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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B&O Employment Numbers

Baltimore & Ohio RailroadWe learn from the “American” that this Company has now in its employ about 1000 mechanics and laborers. In the department of transportation, 700– machinery, 2,400– road repairs, 900. The total number of […]
January 14, 1854
December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025

Petrified Man (IL) Believed to Be Canal Laborer

PETRIFIED MAN.– The Morris (Ill.) Yeoman states that not long since, while some men were digging in a coal bank, near the canal, they exhumed the body of a man in a perfect state of petrifaction. […]
December 18, 1851
December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025

Irish Laborers – Over $80k Sent to Homeland

THE SUFFERING POOR OF IRELAND. The New York Courier has the following article:The warm-hearted Irishman is an expression that has passed into a proverb.– The facts we are about to relate, and which have just been […]
January 14, 1847
December 9, 2020
December 9, 2020

The Spirit of Blood [Canal Workers]

From the Baltimore Saturday Visitor.THE SPIRIT OF BLOOD. Are bowie knives and pistols necessary?— A correspondent of the “Oasis,” a neat and spicy exchange published at Nashua, N. H. writing from Gallatin, Miss. under date of […]
April 17, 1846
December 6, 2025
December 6, 2025

German Attempts to Burn Alive Wife/Children of Irish Laborer; NY.

Remarkable Outrage.— Incredible as it may seem New York yesterday the scene of a deliberate attempt to burn a woman and her two children to death. The victims were the wife, son and infant child of […]
January 2, 1845
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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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