User:NegMawon/Hugh Cumminsky

On April 6, 1821, Hugh Cummiskey is credited for leading 30 Irishmen 30 miles from Charlestown Massachusetts to Pawtuckett Falls in Chelmsford Massachusetts in hopes of finding work with the new mills. Kirk Boott met them with a small sum of money but did not provide housing. The shanties they built for themselves became known as the "Paddy Camps Land" or later "the Acre". Their first assignment was digging the canals for the new mills.

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