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Career · Lead, South Dakota, United States
The Homestake Mine
1876 - 2002
They dug a mile and a half down for gold.
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Career · Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
Dockery Farms
1895 - 1982
The sign on the seed house says Dockery Farms, Est.
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Career · Kay County, Oklahoma, United States
The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch
1893 - 1932
The 101 Ranch more or less invented the rodeo by accident, and the best hand on the place had to be billed as an Indian in order to compete.
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Career · Fayette County, West Virginia, United States
The Hawks Nest Tunnel
1930 - 1935
They were told they were digging a tunnel.
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Career · Islamorada, Florida, United States
The Overseas Railroad
1905 - September 2, 1935
It took seven years and more than fifty million dollars to build a railroad across the open ocean, and one afternoon to end it.
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Career · Las Animas County, Colorado, United States
The Ludlow Tent Colony
1913 - April 20, 1914
They were living in tents because they had gone on strike, and the houses belonged to the company.
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Career · Kennecott, Alaska, United States
Kennecott, Alaska
1909 - November 10, 1938
The last train left Kennecott on the tenth of November 1938, and everyone still there got on it.
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Career · St. Joseph, Missouri, United States
The Pony Express
April 3, 1860 - October 26, 1861
The Pony Express ran for eighteen months, lost money on every letter it carried, and is remembered better than almost anything else in the American West.
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Career · Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
The Lowell Mill Girls
1823
They were farm girls, most of them between fifteen and thirty-five, and they went to Lowell because it was the only place in America where a woman could earn her own money.
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Career · Florence, Kansas, United States
The Harvey Girls
1883
Something like a hundred thousand young women worked as Harvey Girls.
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Career · Chautauqua, New York, United States
Chautauqua
1874
For about thirty years a brown tent went up on a well drained field outside town, and for a week the whole county came to hear a former presidential candidate, an opera singer,...
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Career · Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States
Bass Reeves
1838 - 1910
Every account of Bass Reeves reaches the same number: more than three thousand arrests.
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Career · Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1925 - 1978
Passengers called every porter George.
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Career · Hindman, Kentucky, United States
The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky
1935 - 1943
They were paid twenty-eight dollars a month, and they had to bring their own horse.
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Career · New York, New York, United States
The Negro Motorist Green Book
1936 - 1966
The man who published the guide wrote that he was waiting for the day it would not have to exist.
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Career · United States
The Mercury 13
1960 - 1962
Thirteen women passed the same medical screening as the Mercury astronauts.
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Career · Promontory Summit, Utah, United States
The Chinese Workers of the Central Pacific
1864 - 1869
The Central Pacific kept no record of the deaths of any of its workers.
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Career · Orange, New Jersey, United States
The Radium Girls
1917 - 1938
They were told the paint was harmless.
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