The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia - Softcover

Lyons, Mary E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626194211 ISBN 13: 9781626194212

Publisher: The History Press, 2014

Synopsis

Told through the eyes of three Irish immigrant families who helped build it, discover the groundbreaking story of the  construction of the Blue Ridge Tunnel.

In one of the greatest engineering feats of his time, Claudius Crozet led the completion of Virginia's Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1858. Two centuries later, the National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark still proudly stands, but the stories and lives of those who built it are the true lasting triumph. Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Hunger poured into America resolute for something to call their own. They would persevere through life in overcrowded shanties and years of blasting through rock to see the tunnel to completion. Prolific author Mary E. Lyons follows three Irish families in their struggle to build Crozet's famed tunnel and their American dream.

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About the Author

Mary E. Lyons, a former teacher and librarian, became a full-time writer in 1993. She is the author of nineteen books for young readers published by Scribner, Atheneum, Henry Holt, Houghton Mifflin and Oxford University Press. Born and raised in the American South, she holds dual Irish and US citizenships. She and her husband, Paul, are members of the Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation and live in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626194211
• ISBN 13: 9781626194212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191