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Italian Hall Memorial Park

Calumet, MI

On Christmas Eve 1913, a false cry of fire caused a deadly panic during a striking miners' holiday party at Italian Hall, killing more than 70 people, most of them children. The building was later demolished, but its original stone arch was preserved in this memorial park alongside the names of the victims.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: nps.gov/places/italian-hall-memorial-park.htm

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