James Feeley and his wife Sarah Feeley (neé Liberty) are the perfect Irish immigrant story. Both born in County Tipperary, they met after immigrating to the US in the years of the Great Hunger and ...
In the mid-to-late 1800s, as many Irish fled their famine-stricken home country, thousands came to America to labor on the railroad systems that would connect the states as nothing had before. Sadly, ...
When commuters on the R5 SEPTA train that connects suburban Chester County to Philadelphia approach Malvern station, they might spot a square stone monument on the right side in a clearing surrounded ...
Brothers William and Frank Watson, the researchers who first uncovered Duffy’s Cut, believe they have discovered a second ...
EAST WHITELAND >> The next time you ride a train along the Main Line west of the Malvern Station, you might just be crossing the largest mass murder site in Pennsylvania history. Some of the 57 Irish ...
When commuters ride the train in the northwest suburbs of Philadelphia, most don't know they are passing within a stone's throw of a mass grave. Historians are excavating what could be the remains of ...
From the mid-1840s through the start of the Civil War, tens of thousands of immigrants arrived at U. S. ports, joining the established Irish-American population. By the time of war, an estimated 1.6 ...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. BRATTLEBORO — On February 20, 1849 the first train arrived in Brattleboro, traveling over the newly built Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad. The ...