Battle of Blair Mountain

6 New Monuments To Commemorate March To Blair Mountain

Six new sites along a 50-mile route between Charleston and Matewan, West Virginia will commemorate the 1921 Miners' March to the Battle of Blair Mountain.

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‘Blair Footsteps’ Find Permanent Place At New Mine Wars Monuments

This weekend, organizers with the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum located in Matewan will uncover monuments meant to provide permanent markers about the Battle of Blair Mountain and other related events.

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Us & Them Encore: Blair Mountain

The battle of Blair Mountain in 1921 might be West Virginia's ultimate ‘us and them’ story — labor versus absentee landowners; working class versus ruling class; West Virginia versus the world. This Us & Them episode was honored with an award from The Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters.

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