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The UncommonWealth
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"Brooks, Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:20:58 -0500
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Infrastructure is something that most of us, aside from a few traffic and
civil engineers, tend to take for granted. In the antebellum and post-Civil
War periods, the latter a period of huge internal expansion, enslaved,
incarcerated, and immigrant workers bore the brunt of the sometimes lethal
labor. Today's The UncommonWealth looks at one aspect of transportation
improvement, railroad tunnels.

https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2021/11/22/infrastructure-week-1870s-edition/


*Vincent T. Brooks*
Senior Local Records Archivist
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad St.
Richmond, VA 23219
804-692-3525
Fax 804-692-2277
*The Uncommonwealth* <https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/>

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