In 1846 Irish immigrants came to America because of the potato famine in Ireland. Many of these people who
came to Ohio first served as laborers on canals like the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
Once railroads arrived in the state, many of these same workers helped lay the track. The Irish were not normally accepted …mostly in part to religious reasons, with most Ohioans being Protestant and most of the Irish immigrants being Catholic.
There was also the competition for employment, as those people who already lived here were competing with these Irish immigrants for much-needed jobs. But it was these ancestors of ours who fought hard to make a new life and survive here in America, and our home is in remembrance and honor of them.
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