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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: May 14, 2021
Caption: Hawks Nest Strike Marker
Additional Description: Left Photo Caption
This 1891 photograph shows a westbound C&O train of empty hoppers crossing the wooden truss bridge into town.
(Photo courtesy of the Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society)

Right Photo Caption
During the 1880 strike, the town of Ansted closely resembled this circa 1890s photograph which shows Hawks Nest to the left, a wooden C&O bridge in the center, and the depot for the town of MacDougal to the right.
(Photo courtesy of the Charles Goddard Collection, Fayette County Public Libraries, Oak Hill, WV)
Submitted: May 15, 2021, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p585966
File Size: 3.985 Megabytes

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