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I am writing in support of those marching this week to save BlairMountain. Taking the same route as thousands of miners did in 1921, hundreds of West Virginians along with others from around the nation are marching to oppose the decimation... Published: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 Words: 427
Ephraim Franklin Morgan organized state police, volunteer militia units and coal company employees to stop them. They met at BlairMountain and battled for at least four days until President Warren G. Harding sent 2,500 soldiers and... Published: Sunday, September 06, 2015 Words: 1263
keeper of the National Register of Historic Places has denied a petition asking her to reconsider the removal of the historic BlairMountain battlefield site from the national register. But the interim keeper, Carol D. Shull, said the... Published: Thursday, August 05, 2010 Words: 523
State officials plan to renominate the site of the Battle of BlairMountain, the site of the largest armed confrontation in American labor history, for a place on the National Register of Historic Places. "The Division of Culture and... Published: Sunday, September 05, 2010 Words: 594
is airing a new episode of its "Diggers" television series at 10 tonight, titled "Of Mines and Men." The episode explores BlairMountain, site of the August through September 1921 battle that pitted men of the United Mine Workers against... Published: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 Words: 397
groups hope to preserve a central part of the area along the Boone-Logan county border where coal miners fought the Battle of BlairMountain in 1921, the largest armed confrontation in U.S. labor history. Transportation Secretary Paul... Published: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Words: 522
BLAIR - Hundreds of protesters reached the summit of BlairMountain on Saturday, marking the end of a weeklong, 50-mile march to raise awareness of mountaintop-removal mining and labor rights in West Virginia. The protesters came from... Published: Sunday, June 12, 2011 Words: 799
federal government and the West Virginia Coal Association want a judge to dismiss a lawsuit aimed at protecting Logan County's BlairMountain from surface mining and returning it to the National Register of Historic Places. In new court... Published: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Words: 495
Army Corps of Engineers to accept its request to become a "consulting party" in ongoing discussions about the preservation of the BlairMountain battlefield. "The UMWA is the labor union whose members marched and fought in the 1921... Published: Saturday, August 03, 2013 Words: 299
Archaeologists say bulldozers already are damaging parts of the BlairMountain battlefield, apparently in preparation for strip-mining the crest. Meanwhile, labor history buffs are redoubling their efforts to restore the site to the... Published: Thursday, July 22, 2010 Words: 390
