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Memorial boulder to railroad workers unveiled Sunday near McDowell County line

On Sunday, a memorial plaque and boulder commemorating the lives of the incarcerated workers who labored and died to build the railroad over the mountains was unveiled.

Memorial to railroad workers unveiled near McDowell County

On Sunday, a memorial plaque and boulder commemorating the lives of the incarcerated workers who labored and died to build the railroad over the mountains was unveiled.

Memorial to railroad workers to be unveiled Sunday

On Sunday afternoon, a memorial boulder commemorating the incarcerated workers who gave their lives to build the railroad in the 1870s will be unveiled at a special ceremony near the

The trouble at the Woodville convict labor camp

Historian David Cecelski shares an excerpt about a brief strike in April 1935 at a convict labor camp in Perquimans County from Dr. Susan Thomas’ dissertation that examines the history of the largely African American chain gangs that built public roads in the early 20th century.

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