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How an Irish Immigrant Became Responsible for 57 Deaths in 19th-Century Malvern
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…
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Anti-Irish, Anti-Catholic Sentiment Led to Vigilante Violence at Duffy’s Cut
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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