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On Labor Day: Remembering Those Who Died While Building the Conowingo Dam

Posted on September 7, 2015September 3, 2018 by Mike

On this Labor Day, a holiday that honors American Workers and remembers the struggle to acquire better employment conditions, it’s a good time to share some research I have been doing on men who paid a high price erecting the Conowingo Dam.  An untold number were killed, injured or disabled while toiling away at the…

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