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Dutchman's Curve Train Wreck

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Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville
The deadliest train wreck in US history occurred on July 9, 1918, when two crowded trains collided head-on at Dutchman's Curve. The impact caused passenger cars to derail into surrounding cornfields, and fires broke out throughout the wreckage. Over 100 died, including many African-American workers journeying to work at the munitions plant near Old Hickory.

(African Americans • Railroads & Streetcars • War, World I) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

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