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labor, environmental and historic preservation organizations can sue the federal government to preserve the historic site of BlairMountain in Logan County from mountaintop removal mining, a panel of three federal judges ruled Tuesday.... Published: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Words: 696
A group organizing this week's march on BlairMountain alleges coal industry intimidation is behind the group's difficulties in finding camping places along the route. "Owners and operators of both private and public campsites in Boone,... Published: Thursday, June 09, 2011 Words: 867
Trust for Historic Preservation joined a lawsuit against the National Park Service last week challenging the removal of the BlairMountain Battlefield from the National Register of Historic Places. Removing BlairMountain, the National... Published: Sunday, January 02, 2011 Words: 579
When my great-uncle Bill Blizzard marched up the side of BlairMountain with several thousand other coal miners in the late summer of 1921, he wasn't thinking about the coal that lay within the mountain. He wasn't thinking about whether... Published: Sunday, February 20, 2011 Words: 1011
Union members, conservationists, community leaders and celebrity singers are preparing to go on a 50-mile march on BlairMountain next month to honor labor struggles of the past and call for an end to mountaintop removal mining today.... Published: Sunday, May 15, 2011 Words: 523
MORGANTOWN - Activists trying to save the BlairMountain battlefield from coal mining protested Friday in West Virginia and Missouri, at the offices of two companies that control access to much of the land where unionizing coal miners... Published: Saturday, February 18, 2012 Words: 596
historians sent a petition to West Virginia's legislators Monday, urging them to create a permanent park honoring the Battle of BlairMountain. The battle, fought for five days in late August and early September 1921, was the largest... Published: Tuesday, June 26, 2012 Words: 713
In 2009, I was part of the team of historians and archaeologists who succeeded in placing historic BlairMountain on the National Register of Historic Places. Since that time, I have learned a mighty truth, and it is not a happy one.... Published: Sunday, March 16, 2014 Words: 743
The 1921 Battle of BlairMountain is a historic event of great national importance known mostly to West Virginians. The battle represents the largest insurrection in America's history, except for the Civil War. In late August and early... Published: Sunday, January 31, 2010 Words: 713
The ongoing struggle to put Logan County's BlairMountain on the National Register of Historic Places is drawing attention to West Virginia's notorious mine wars of the early 1900s. Whether or not Blair finally gets U.S. recognition,... Published: Sunday, February 07, 2010 Words: 1111
