[Based on materials by Nellie Hendricks Moler] Delving into old records of early land grants, you will find that tracts of land were taken up in this ection along the Potomac River just as early as […]
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?
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 […]
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 […]
