All posts tagged "railroads"
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21.3K5Business and LaborThe Hoosac Tunnel Disaster of 1867
The Hoosac Tunnel disaster killed 13 miners in 1867, but the tunnel took the lives of an estimated 180 workers during decades of construction....
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8.5K5Arts and LeisureH.H. Hunnewell, Railroad Baron and Garden Nut
H.H. Hunnewell was a gardening nut who financed railroads and contributed so much to West Needham, Mass., that the town voted to...
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4.6K2MaineA Canoe Trip Down the Allagash, July 6, 1911
The spell of the woods stayed for weeks with Henry Withee and Horace Bailey after they canoed down the Allagash River for nine...
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63.6K16ConnecticutSurprising Stories: The Great White Hurricane of 1888
The Great White Hurricane of 1888 struck on the night of March 11 and continued furiously for two days, dumping as much...
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21.1K10Business and LaborAnother Look at Hetty Green, The Witch of Wall Street
That Hetty Green hoarded her vast Gilded Age fortune and lived like a pauper there can be no doubt. That she was...
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21.5K16Business and LaborThe Middlesex Canal, New England’s Incredible Ditch
The Middlesex Canal, now largely forgotten, was a 27-mile waterway that drove the industrialization of the Merrimack Valley for 50 years starting...
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