The history of work and working people is interwoven through the stories of all America’s most significant places. From the free and enslaved laborers who built the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and laid the tracks of the first transcontinental railroad, to the “mill girls” who made cloth in Lowell’s textile factories, to the striking employees of Chicago’s Pullman Company, to the founder of the country’s first permanent agricultural union, you’ll find their histories here.  Learn more at: nps.gov Image: 1: Boott Mill Weave Room at lowellnps. Lowell’s water-powered textile mills catapulted the nation – including immigrant families and early female factory workers – into an uncertain new industrial era. Image 2: Preserving America’s early transportation history, the C&O Canal chesapeakeandohiocanal began as a dream of passage to Western wealth. Operating for nearly 100 years the canal was a lifeline for communities along the Potomac River as coal, lumber, and agricultural products floated...