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Man is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 772 at the 2020 census . [ 6 ] The town is located along the Guyandotte River at the mouth of Buffalo Creek , [ 7 ] which was the site of the 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood following a dam collapse.
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and is the largest armed uprising since the American Civil War. [5] [6] The conflict occurred in Logan County, West Virginia, as part of the Coal Wars, a series of early-20th-century labor disputes in Appalachia.
"The View from the Border: West Virginia Republicans and Women's Rights in the Age of Emancipation," West Virginia History, Spring2009, Vol. 3 Issue 1, pp 57–80, 1861–1870 era; Gerofsky, Milton. "Reconstruction in West Virginia, Part I and II," West Virginia History 6 (July 1945); Part I, 295–360, 7 (October 1945): Part II, 5–39, Link ...
"The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920–1921" West Virginia History, vol. 50 (1991), available online Lee, Howard B., Bloodletting in Appalachia: The Story of West Virginia's Four Major Mine Wars and Other Thrilling Incidents of Its Coal Fields ...
Possibly born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1763, or on the South Branch of the Potomac River where his parents had moved before 1770, Lewis was the son of Mary Bonnet (1735–1805; daughter of Jean Jacques Bonnet, Flemish Huguenot) and John Wetzel (1733–1786; indentured servant emigrant from Germany's Palatine region or Friedrichstal, Baden, Germany).
Matewan Massacre, West Virginia Division of Culture and History; State of West Virginia (2002). Marking Our Past: West Virginia's Historical Highway Markers. Charleston: West Virginia Division of Culture and History. West Virginia Mine Wars Museum independent history museum covering the Mine Wars Era in Matewan, WV. Matewan Oral History Project ...
Logan the Orator (c. 1723 – 1780) was a Cayuga orator and war leader born of one of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.After his 1760s move to the Ohio Country, he became affiliated with the Mingo, a tribe formed from Seneca, Cayuga, Lenape and other remnant peoples.
The district includes 207 contributing buildings in Mannington's central business district and surrounding residential areas. Notable buildings include the railroad depot (c. 1896), Exchange Bank Building (c. 1897), U.S. Post Office (c. 1938), Colonial Building (c. 1904), the Blackshere House (c. 1900), the Bartlett House (c. 1900), First National Bank Building (c. 1909), the Furbee Building ...