Working

The Dunlawton Plantation was no leisure spot. As a frontier agricultural and processing site, it demanded hard, physical, un-glamorous work. Without the labor of African-American slaves and hired free workers, this nineteenth-century venture would not have been possible.

In 1850 John ...

Working Men of the Railroads

The backbreaking work building railroads to the West was accomplished by men, like Thomas W. Haverty from Galway, Ireland. Wielding hammers and driving spikes their labor united a country and made Atchison "The Rail Centre of Kansas" beginning with the ...

Workingman’s Hall

1879

Originally located at Sixth and Delaware streets, this simple wooden building was constructed by volunteers from the Workingman’s Club, a west Berkeley political organization. Built as a reading room for laborers, it was used briefly as Berkeley’s town hall shortly ...

Working Together for the Community

Westernport Flood Mitigation, Restoration, and Park Development Project

Flooding. In 1996, two devastating floods caused catastrophic damage throughout a four county area of Western Maryland. The town of Westernport, located at the confluence of Georges Creek and the Potomac River, was ...

For the Working People

Midcity at the Crossroads

"There is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish." Samuel Gompers.

This large office building opened in 1916 as the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor. With 2.5 million ...

Working the Shift

Turning raw cotton into cloth was a multi-step process. As a result, textile mills had different jobs all along the production chain. In the opening room, men unfastened cotton bales and loaded them into cleaning and fluffing machines. From there ...

They Died for the Rights of the Working Man

These men were killed in Honea Path on September 6, 1934 in the General Textile Strike. This monument is dedicated to their memory, to their families and to all workers.

Claude Cannon, E.M. Knight

Lee Crawford, Maxie Peterson

Ira Davis, C.L. Rucker

Thomas Yarborough

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Working Benevolent Society Hospital

[Marker Front]:

The Working Benevolent Society Hospital, first known as St. Luke Colored Hospital, was a two-story frame building standing here at the corner of Green Avenue and Jenkins Street. Founded in 1920, it served blacks in Greenville for twenty-eight years. ...