Presston Neighborhood

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Presston (also Preston) is a Stowe Township neighborhood consisting of rows of nearly identical frame houses. It began in 1900 as a company town, built to house laborers for the Pressed Steel Car Company's large railroad car plant to the immediate south.

The village came to be known as Hunkeyville or Hunky Town for the many Slavic immigrants ("Hunkies") who came to work in what a local paper called "the most outrageous of all industrial plants in the United States." A county coroner estimated that an average of one worker per day died at the plant.

Workers protested their condition in the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909. Between 12 and 26 people died in a climactic battle between strikers, private security and police agents.

For more information, read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressed_Steel_Car_strike_of_1909