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Akwesasne and the ironworkers
1886
Akwesasne, New York
Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A Mohawk territory the international border runs straight through, so families cross between two countries to visit each other. Men from here took up high steel after a railway bridge went up on the reserve and built much of New York, the Empire State Building, the George Washington Bridge, the World Trade Center, and then the clearing of it after 2001. Thirty-three died when the Quebec Bridge fell in 1907.
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