Tag: Michigan Central
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Great Railroad Conspiracy of Central Michigan 1850
THE GREAT RAILROAD CONSPIRACY The railroad is ancient and in ruins, this is the dismissal story. I came accross this while researching John Macy’s background, Macy was a central character in Helen Kellers Harvard years. Macy comes from one of the families that founded Nantucket. Besides that this event has…
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The Molly Maguires and the Great Railroad Strike of 1877. Setting the Stage for the Haymarket Riot
Partial and incomplete draft, see (link) Franklin Benjamin Gowen We should start with the villain first this time since he is such a central figure in much of the event as owner of… just about everything; the Reading Railroad, the mines, the private security force, he is also the District…