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Enclosure near the Amtrak (formerly PRR) tracks near Malvern, PA, built as a memorial to Irish workers who died during a Cholera epidemic at "Duffy's Cut" - mile 59. Enclosure apparently built with stones used in the 1832 construction, but it itself…

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Conditions and morale while building the railroads as told by a 60 year old Scotch-Irish man.

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"Immigration, Railroads, and the West"

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Irish Population counties around New York.

The men who found the remains of Irish railroad workers in 2002 wrote this novel about the events that took place and their findings.
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