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Eastern Market Metro Station, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age. - "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing, one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

John Huggins. Said he is fourteen years old and has been doffing for eight months in the Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills. Violation of law. Gets a dollar a day now. Before he came here, he worked in the cotton mill at West, Tex., for five or six years. Said boys work in the Cuero mill under age. "They don't even bother to ask your age. Didn't ask mine. Easy 'nuff to git a job." The mills were not running on account of floods this week. I found only one other boy under age. - "Spider" Estes said he is fourteen years old and been working here, doffing, one year. Location: Cuero, Texas.

Eastern Market Metro Station, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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Summary

Significance: Indicated as an open space on both the L'Enfant and Ellicott plans, this space has been treated as an open landscaped area since its first improvement in the 1880s. It is also within boundaries of the National Register Capitol Hill Historic District.
Survey number: HABS DC-670

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1933 - 1970
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.88425, -76.99579
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