Lost or forgotten no more: Incarcerated Black laborers that built WNC railroad memorialized - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR News

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Outside of Old Fort, the Western North Carolina railroad bends around Andrews Geyser. The man-made fountain is named after the vice president of the company that owned the railroad, built in the 1870's. Now, the thousands of laborers who did the work are finally memorialized at the site too.