Labor Landmarks
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Name Street Address City State Historical Notes
Talbot, Tom, Statue Grant Park Atlanta GA Tom Talbot was the founder and first president of the International Association of Machinists.
Thompson, J.C., Home & Historical Marker 633 West Hanover Street Marshall MI In April 1863, a meeting here formed the Brotherhood of the Footboard (renamed Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 1864). J.C. Thompson was one of the founders.
TOTH Mining Memorial Smelter Hill, South Dakota State University School of Mines Rapid City SD The 1874 confirmation of gold in the Black Hills marked the beginning of the Gold Rush. Ignoring an 1868 treaty, prospectors flocked to the area. Mining came to represent both wealth for whites, and cultural destruction for Native Americans.
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Triangle Fire Ladder Plaque Ladder Company 20 New York NY Dedicated to the firemen of Company 20 that responded to the Fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Company on March 25, 1911. 146 workers were killed in the fire.
Triangle Fire Plaque (cemetery) Workmen's Circle section of Mt. Zion Cemetery New York NY Commemorates the 146 workers (mostly female) that died when their factory caught on fire. Most died because the fire doors were locked. There was no fire alarm system, no sprinklers, an inoperative fire hose & the only fire escape didn't reach the ground.
Triangle Fire Plaque (factory site) Washington Pl. & Green St. New York NY Garment workers mark the site, near Washington Square, of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of March 25, 1911 where 146 mostly female workers lost their lives. The fire spurred safety movements by unions.
Tribute to Nevada Miners Statue 401 S. Carson St. Carson City NV In recognition of, and in tribute to the miners who worked in the Nevada mine industry from the mid-1800s on.


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