Monday, 25 January 2016

In 1832, in Pennsylvania's backwoods, Irish immigrants were building one of the America's first railroads. The workers were building Mile 59 of Philadelphia to Pittsburgh mainline, at a place known as Duffy's Cut. They left Ireland, a land almost destroyed by starvation, disease, and crime, in hopes of a new life, but within few days they would all be dead and their bodies would be concealed in an unmarked tomb.

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