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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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June 13, 2026
June 13, 2026

Woman Killed By Cholera on Canal Line

From the Hagerstown Torch Light, Aug. 1.One death of cholera, occurred in town, on Sunday– a woman– from the line of the Canal. This is the third, and only the third death, that has occurred in […]
August 8, 1833
June 12, 2026
June 12, 2026

Virginia Coal (on the Potomac)

Virginia Coal.– The opinion is now gaining ground, that large bodies of coal, of a superior quality, exist on the banks of the Potomac river, near the finished parts of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Some […]
November 28, 1833
June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026

Winchester & Potomac Rails being laid.

The work on the sections of the Winchester and Potomac Rail Road, in the vicinity of this town, is now rapidly being prosecuted; and we presume the whole portion of the line under contract, (27 miles,) […]
December 5, 1833
June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026

Cholera among Laborers in Washington Co., MD.

From the Hagerstown Free Press, Sept. 11. In Washington county the Cholera has been fatal in a great many cases– in the lower part of the county, the canal laborers are sickening and dying daily. In […]
September 20, 1832
June 11, 2026
June 11, 2026

Armory Blacksmith Building Consumed By Fire

FIRE.On Friday morning last, one of the blacksmith shops belonging to the United States’ Armory at Harpers-Ferry, was consumed by fire. The loss was not very considerable, there being but little wood connected with the building. […]
September 20, 1832
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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
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Smith
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Williams
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Willis
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