From Ireland to America: building the canals

LIVERPOOL, Pa. (WHTM) – On the hill overlooking Liverpool sits Union Cemetery. Founded in 1808, it has over 2,000 burials and hundreds of gravestones. Near the entrance to the cemetery is a plot of land with thirteen gravesites, but only one headstone. Of the thirteen, we have the names of only eight. The headstone marks the final resting place of John Doyle from County Down in Ireland. The area is know as the Catholic Cemetery, or the Irish Catholic Cemetery, but is most often called the Old Irish Cemetery. Those...