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Friends of BlairMountain held a rally Tuesday at the Culture Center and submitted a petition to the State Historical Preservation Office signed by more than 26,000 people supporting preservation of the historic site on the Boone-Logan... Published: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 Words: 662
BlairMountain sits at the confluence of Appalachian struggles old and new. In August of 1921, roughly 10,000 armed coal miners from the region converged and began marching toward the town of Logan, the seat of coal operator power,... Published: Sunday, September 08, 2013 Words: 1080
The United Mine Workers of America supported efforts to save the historic BlairMountain battlefield in a legal motion it filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Battle of BlairMountain lasted five... Published: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Words: 575
More than 600 people are expected to begin a 50-mile march from Marmet to BlairMountain on Monday to protest mountaintop removal mining. The five-day event comes close to the 90th anniversary of the historic Battle of BlairMountain,... Published: Sunday, June 05, 2011 Words: 1167
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may include groups such as the Friends of BlairMountain and the United Mine Workers of America in its efforts to develop an agreement about mining on the historic BlairMountain Battlefield. The Corps... Published: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Words: 831
Friends of BlairMountain will open the new Blair Community Center and Museum in Logan County at 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon. This event will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of BlairMountain, fought between Aug. 25 and... Published: Thursday, September 01, 2011 Words: 575
Vigorous debates continue about how extensively the historic BlairMountain Battlefield, the site of the largest armed confrontation in American labor history, should be preserved. The United Mine Workers and Friends of BlairMountain,... Published: Sunday, August 24, 2014 Words: 854
labor history and environmental protection groups filed a legal appeal Thursday morning, continuing their fight to restore the BlairMountain Battlefield to the National Register of Historic Places. The groups include: the Sierra Club,... Published: Friday, November 30, 2012 Words: 655
The Battle of BlairMountain, in 1921, has been described as the largest armed rebellion in America since the Civil War, a civil insurrection that dwarfs any seen then or since. Yet in the near century since as many as 10,000 West... Published: Sunday, July 19, 2015 Words: 1728
mountaintop removal mining and defend labor rights. Nearly 250 marchers and supporters of the Appalachia Rising March on BlairMountain gathered at the Marmet Baseball Field for a rally on Monday morning. An hour later, shortly after... Published: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 Words: 825
