As wartime production soared in the late 1910s, many young men went North to find temporary industrial work in steel mills, rock quarries, and shipbuilding. News of opportunities spread by word-of-mouth, as shown in the many men from the Elm City area who found jobs at one of Connecticut’s many trap rock quarries.
- Henderson Barnes, laborer, Bethlehem Steel Company, Baltimore, Md., 1917
- Robert Carroll, laborer, Bethlehem Steel Company, Baltimore, Md., 1917
- Jack Dyson, laborer, Suffield-Berlin Trap Rock Company, Beckley, Conn., 1918
- Armer Gaston, stone quarry laborer, Suffield-Berlin Trap Rock Company, Beckley, Conn., 1917
- Elmer Gaston, stone quarry laborer, Suffield-Berlin Trap Rock Company, Beckley, Conn., 1917
- Willie Hockaday, laborer, Worth Brothers Company, Coatesville, Penn., 1917
Postcard of Worth Brothers rolling mills, collection of Ron Echoff.
- Avery Johnson, laborer, Worth Brothers Company, Coatesville, Penn., 1917
- William Johnson, laborer, Carnegie Steel Company, Rankin, Penn., 1917
- John Jones, laborer, Suffield-Berlin Trap Rock Company, Beckley, Conn., 1917
- Dallas Locust, laborer, Baltimore Copper Company, Sparrow Point, Md., 1918
- Charley Mercer, ashman at #4 boilerhouse, Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company, Coatesville, Penn., 1918
- Sam Norfleet, laborer, Suffield-Berlin Trap Rock Company, Beckley, Conn., 1917
- Roscoe Pitt, laborer, Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, 1918
- Charlie Williams, “punching,” Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, 1918
- Edward Watson, stevedore, Old Dominion Steamship Company, Norfolk, Va., 1918
- Herbert Watson, laborer, Suffield-Berlin Trap Rock Company, Beckley, Conn., 1918