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Flababo
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Reged: 07/17/05
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Loc: Southeastern Pennsylvania

Duffy's Cut

12/09/06 05:32 PM

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On this spot in 1832, 57 Irish immigrant laborers died building the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Hired by contractor Philip Duffy, the men were charged with digging a cut in the hill so that the railroad, now Amtrak's Keystone Corridor, could continue westward. In August of that year cholera came to their little encampment, leaving only a blacksmith (and later four nuns from Philadelphia) to aid the sick and dying, In all, nearly half of the men, 57 to be exact, died and all were buried by the tracks.

Even today, a stone enclosure can be seen by the tracks marking where the spot where the men are buried.

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Duffy's Cut	Flababo	12/09/06 05:32 PM
Re: Duffy's Cut	danescombe	08/22/07 04:21 PM

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