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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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August 15, 2019
River Boyne. County Louth Ireland LCCN2002717437
August 15, 2019

The unveiling of Elizabeth Slavin

By the 1860 census, a young Irish girl had taken residence with Thomas and Annie Walsh in Bolivar, [West] Virginia. Who is she and why did she live with Tommy and Annie?
August 15, 2019
August 7, 2018
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August 7, 2018

Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860

Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of industrial America opening up new markets, employing an army of workers, and initiating the ties between capital and government that remain important to this day. The […]
1997
August 7, 2018
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August 7, 2018

Emigrants and Exiles

Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first “transatlantic” history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration […]
1988
July 31, 2018
July 31, 2018

Lime Works Lays off Large Number of Employees

Owing to the closing of a part of the Bakerton lime works a number of our laborers have been thrown out of employment.
December 20, 1917
June 22, 2018
June 22, 2018

Strike at Bakerton

The workmen at the Bakerton quarries went on strike last week for a day of ten hours at the same price they had been getting for ten and a-half hours. The management cheerfully granted the request […]
April 12, 1900
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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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