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For more than 180 years, cholera was blamed by railroad officials for the deaths of 57 Irish immigrants who died within six weeks of being…
Visitors who are looking to tour the Irish historical markers in the Philadelphia region should not miss the one dedicated to Duffy’s Cut Mass…
In 1832, 57 Irish immigrants who had arrived in Philadelphia just weeks earlier were brutally murdered while working on the railroad at Duffy’s Cut…
Phoenixville native Norman Goodman, Chester County’s former chief deputy coroner, is still looking for answers on what happened to the people buried in a…
A new discovery has emerged about the deaths of 57 Irish railroad workers at Duffy’s Cut in Chester County in the early 1830s, writes…
Fresh off a boat from Ireland, 57 people working on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad are thought to have contracted cholera, were murdered, and thrown…
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