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| Name | Street Address | City | State | Historical Notes | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle of Blair Mountain Historic Site | Route 17 between the towns of Blair and Ethel | Blair Mountain | WV | The site where 10,000 striking union miners fought for recognition of their union, UMWA, against coal operators from Aug. 31 to Sept. 4, 1921. At the governor's request, federal troops were sent in. Miners were forced to withdraw after 16 deaths. | In 1990, a non-union coal mining operator, Massey, applied for permission to strip mine the western side of the mountain. |
| Battle of Matewan Historic Sity | Matewan | WV | The town is the site of a shootout between striking union miners (led by Police Chief Sid Hatfield) and coal company agents (Baldwin-Felts) on 5/19/1920. | see: Hatfield, Sid, Monument | |
| Big Bend Tunnel Historical Marker | Big Bend Mountain | Talcott | WV | Marks the existing tunnel of the C&O Railroad, and is said to be the scene of John Henry's battle with a steam drill. | See: Henry, John, Monument |
| Coal Miner's Memorial | Fairmont | WV | Honors workers who have perished in mine accidents, including 70 who were killed in an explosion near Fairmont in 1968. | ||
| Henry, John, Monument | at the top of Big Bend Mountain | Talcott | WV | Commemorates the site where John Henry, in 1870, beat a machine in a steel driving contest and became the most sung about hero in American folklore. Legend says the contest cost him his life and his ghost lives in the Big Bend tunnel. | The statue has been vandalized at least twice: in 1979, it was toppled and dragged 30 yards by an automobile and in 1982, it was splashed with white paint. Also see 'Big Bend Tunnel Historical Marker' |
| Jefferson County Jail | Corner of N. George & E. Liberty Streets; Downtown Charles Town Historic District | Charles Town | WV | Miners who fought for recognition of the UMWA at the Battle of Blair Mountain were incarcerated here before their trial in the Jefferson County Courthouse in April, 1922. Most miners were acquitted of charges, and those convicted were paroled in 1925. | The Downtown Charles Town Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. See: Battle of Blair Mountain Historic Site |
| Jones, Mary Harris "Mother", Prison Site | on WV 61 | Pratt | WV | During the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912-1913, troopers arrested Mother Jones and illegally held her in this house for 85 days. She was still able to get messages concerning conditions of miners to a US Senate investigation committee. | In 1992, received National Historic Landmark designation. Also see: Mother Jones & Miners' Monument (under Jones) and Mother Jones Historical Marker (under Jones) |
| Miley, J. Frank, Gravesite | Morgantown | WV | J. Frank Miley was former president of District 31. He died in September 1939. He was a forerunner of the rights of miners during the 1930s. He believed firmly in the rights to organize and bargain collectively. | ||
| West Virginia Workers' Memorial | West Virginia AFL-CIO; 501 Leon Sullivan Way | Charleston | WV | Monument erected in the honor of workers everywhere who have lost their lives to the workplace. | Inscribed, "Let this hard, solid granite signify our determination to make our work sites safer and to keep our workers whole. Let not the quest for profit rob us of another brother or sister, mother or father, son or daughter." |
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