| Pettibone, George, Monument |
Fairmount Cemetery; 430 S. Quebec St. |
Denver |
CO |
Pettibone was blacklisted by the mining industry, so he opened a catering shop for the Western Federation of Miners. He was labeled a "troublemaker" and was framed and jailed by Pinkerton detectives. He was acquitted in 1908. |
| Pipeline Workers Monument |
front entrance of Alyeska Pipeline Service Company; Dayville Rd. |
Valdez |
AK |
On June 20, 1977, oil began traveling through the trans-Alaska pipeline. 70,000 people worked on the pipeline, history's largest privately-financed construction project. |
| Players Club |
Gramercy Park |
New York |
NY |
Mansion was once owned by actor Edwin Booth who left his home to the Players Club - used as group meeting place for theatrical people (club members). In 1913, library was used to form the Actors' Equity Association. |
| Poultry Worker's Memorial |
|
Pasadena |
TX |
Honors workers in a poultry factory that were killed in an explosion in 1989. |
| Powderly, Terence V., Gravesite |
Rock Creek Church Cemetery |
Washington |
DC |
Powderly, the national leader of the Knights of Labor from 1878-1893, led the organization from secrecy to national prominence. By mid-1886 the KOL numbered about one million, including women and racial minorities. |
| Powderly, Terence, Home |
503 Rock Creek Church Rd. NW |
Washington |
DC |
After relinquishing leadership of the Knights of Labor, Terence Powderly moved to Washington, D.C., in 1897 when he was appointed U.S. Commissioner General of Immigration. He built the home to host his many friends and Mother Jones was a frequent visitor. |
| Prospect V-III Mining Memorial |
Frostburg State College |
Frostburg |
MD |
Coal was first discovered in the U.S. in nearby Georges Creek Basin during an 1872 survey conducted by George Washington. Since the birth of the U.S. coal industry, miners have experienced risk and hardship, unionization battles, and work-related disease. |
| "The Prospector" Statue |
The Alaska Pioneers Home; Lincoln & Katlian Sts. |
Sitka |
AK |
The discovery and mining of gold in Alaska and the pioneering of new territory could offer substantial wealth and fame for prospectors. The Alaska Pioneers Home, started in 1913, was constructed for elderly gold prospectors. |
