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March 23, 2011 03:19 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/4qxwFYuDac4/grassroots-archaeolo.html
Grassroots archaeology and a 19th century murder mystery
In June of 1832, the 57 Irish migrant workers arrived at the docks of Philadelphia. Their job was to lance a flat path for the track through steep, hilly terrain. In railroad parlance, this is known as a 'cut' and thereafter that stretch of track would be known as Duffy's Cut. Six weeks later, they would all be dead. A lot of eerie folklore and some community organized archaeology uncover a murder mystery on Philadelphia's Main Line. Image courtesy the Duffy's Cut Project...
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