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Matewan (/ ˈ m eɪ t w ɒ n /) is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States at the confluence of the Tug Fork River and Mate Creek. The population was 412 at the 2020 census , down from 499 in 2010. [ 6 ]
The Matewan Historic District encompasses the town center of the rural coal mining community of Matewan, West Virginia.Matewan was the scene of the Battle of Matewan on May 19, 1920, during a coal miners' strike, an event which led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest insurrection ever associated with the labor movement in the United States, and was depicted in the film Matewan.
The Battle of Matewan (also known as the Matewan Massacre [1]) was a shootout in the town of Matewan in Mingo County and the Pocahontas Coalfield mining district, in southern West Virginia. It occurred on May 19, 1920 between local coal miners and their allies and the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency .
That's the aim of a new effort announced this past Wednesday—Juneteenth—by the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, located in Matewan, Mingo County. The heart of the state's southern coal ...
Mingo County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,568. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Williamson. [2] Created in 1895, [3] Mingo is West Virginia's newest county, named for the historic Iroquoian Mingo people. [4]
This article includes a List of National Historic Landmarks in West Virginia. ... Matewan Historic District: Matewan Historic District. February 18, 1997
Matewan (/ ˈ m eɪ t w ɒ n /) is a 1987 American independent [2] [3] drama film written and directed by John Sayles, and starring Chris Cooper (in his film debut), James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell and Will Oldham, with David Strathairn, Kevin Tighe and Gordon Clapp in supporting roles. [4]
Bailey, Rebecca J., Matewan before the Massacre: Politics, Coal, and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community (West Virginia University Press, 2008) [ISBN missing] Corbin, David Alan, Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880–1922 , new ed. (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press ...