This memorial marks the burial area associated with African American workers who died after being exposed to enormous concentrations of silica dust during construction of the Hawks Nest Tunnel in the early 1930s. The National Park Service describes the project as one of America's worst industrial tragedies.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: home.nps.gov/places/hawks-nest-workers-memorial-and-grave-site.htm