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Battle of Blair Mountain. Part of the West Virginia Coal Wars. Cover of The Washington Times with the headline that the US airfleet had been sent into West Virginia. Date. August 25 to September 2, 1921. Location. Logan County, West Virginia. 37°51′45″N 81°51′23″W / 37.86250°N 81.85639°W / 37.86250; -81.85639. Resulted in.
The West Virginia coal wars (1912–1921), also known as the mine wars, arose out of a dispute between coal companies and miners. The West Virginia mine wars era began with the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek strike of 1912–1913. [1] With help from Mary "Mother Jones" Harris Jones, an important figure in unionizing the mine workers, the miners ...
Pages in category "Coal towns in West Virginia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 511 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Nuttallburg Coal Mining Complex and Town Historic District is located near Winona, West Virginia in New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.The townsite is almost directly across from the Kay Moor mine and townsite, now abandoned.
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.
November 8, 1990 [1] Kay Moor, also known as Kaymoor, is the site of an abandoned coal mine, coal-processing plant, and coal town near Fayetteville, West Virginia. The town site is located in the New River Gorge at Kaymoor Bottom (38°03′00″N 81°03′17″W[2]). It is linked to the mine portal 560 feet (170 m) above on Sewell Bench (38°02 ...
1554166. Coalwood is an unincorporated coal town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The coal mine in Coalwood reached its peak in the 1950s and ceased production on October 1, 1986. As of the 1990 census—the last time the town was counted separately—the population was 900. The town is the setting of Homer Hickam 's best ...
Pocahontas Coalfield, which is also known as the Flat Top-Pocahontas Coalfield, is located in Mercer County / McDowell County, West Virginia and Tazewell County, Virginia. [1] The earliest mining of coal in the coalfield was in Pocahontas, Virginia in 1883 [2] at Pocahontas Mine No. 1, now on the National Register of Historic Places. The coal ...