Canal Zone

Pedro Miguel

History

Pedro Miguel is a town near the Pedro Miguel Locks on the Pacific side of the canal. Its purpose was to support the locks construction and operation and until the 1950’s its residents were U.S. canal workers and their families. But by 1952 the town was planned for future abandonment.

During the mid 1950’s a broader reshuffling of communities along racial lines within the Panama Canal Zone was underway and the silver town of La Boca was being phased out due to urban and infrastructure redevelopment. Pedro Miguel’s American workers and their families were relocated and were replaced by many La Boca’s residents and their families, and the town became a silver town.

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Population based on the 1950 - 1960 Census

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Mission Statement

We aim to educate visitors about the racially segregated Panama Canal Zone towns inhabited by the former West Indian laborers, their Afro-Panamanians progenies and their pivotal contribution to building the Panama Canal and the nation of Panama.

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