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Name: Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Massachusetts
Location Type: Other
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Coordinates: 42.699035, -73.111900
Description:
This nearly 5-mile-long tunnel was dug out of the mountains of western Massachusetts between 1851 and 1875. At the time it was the second-longest tunnel in the world, but there were many gruesome deaths and accidents associated with its construction. For more than 150 years people have regularly...