When the United States took on the building of the Panama Canal in
1904, workers were faced with extremely difficult living
conditions. The tropical diseases such as malaria and yellow fever
plagued them just as they had the earlier French effort. The
housing stock left behind by the French was dilapidated and
inadequate. About a hundred sets of beautifully drafted
architectural plans left by the French came in handy for locating
drains, etc., as the Americans made repairs to existing buildings.
Some workers found insect ridden rooms in adjacent towns while
others lived in tents or thatched huts near construction sites. Not
wanting to endanger the lives of their families, most men left
their wives and children behind. What started out as a cesspool of
disease and loneliness eventually emerged as a little piece of
paradise for its Canal Zone residents. This book tells some of the
stories of the various townsites scattered along the fifty miles of
the Panama Canal Zone between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
It also shares the fond memories of a few of its residents whose
hometowns have changed since the Panama Canal was turned over to
Panama on December 31, 1999, and the Canal Zone as they knew it was
no more.
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