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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael R. Polk.

Construction of the Central Pacific Railroad portion of the Transcontinental Railroad relied heavily on labor by young overseas Chinese men who were hired and transported from southern China to the mountains and deserts of California, Nevada and Utah over a few months' time. Construction of the railroad predated widespread use of steam driven excavation machinery, thus the railroad largely depended on the manual labor of these men. Often working in extreme conditions, many workers died along the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sean Rafferty.

The White Site for most of its occupation was occupied by a sequence of railroad laborer families, largely of Irish descent. Irish-American labor was integral in the construction and operation of the American railway system during the mid to late 19th century. The expansion of alternative transportation networks and the expansion of suburban residential areas led to the replacement of small, laborer households during the late 19th and early 20th century. Mid to late 19th century laborer...

PROJECT New York State Department of Transportation.

This project contains reports generated as part of archaeological investigations for PIN 9041.12.121 In April of 1994, the Public Archaeology Facility (PAF) through the Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton contracted with the State Education Department of New York to perform Paragraph 3 and 4 cultural resource surveys for the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) highway projects located in Regions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. The Paragraph 4 site...