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On Sunday, a memorial plaque and boulder commemorating the lives of the incarcerated workers who labored and died to build the railroad over the mountains was unveiled.
On Sunday, a memorial plaque and boulder commemorating the lives of the incarcerated workers who labored and died to build the railroad over the mountains was unveiled.
On Sunday afternoon, a memorial boulder commemorating the incarcerated workers who gave their lives to build the railroad in the 1870s will be unveiled at a special ceremony near the
Historian David Cecelski shares an excerpt about a brief strike in April 1935 at a convict labor camp in Perquimans County from Dr. Susan Thomas’ dissertation that examines the history of the largely African American chain gangs that built public roads in the early 20th century.
The Swannanoa Gap - the pathway between Davidson’s Fort and the mountaintop where Samuel Davidson was killed in present-day Swannanoa - was busy.