The four-day battle ended when 2,500 federal troops arrived at Blair Mountain on Sept. 1, 1921. Miners, many of whom were WWI veterans, immediately laid down their arms. Their fight was with the coal ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. 100 years ago, in the hills of West Virginia, Black, white and European immigrant coal miners banded together to demand better pay and safer ...

A look at local history reveals that Logan County has been in the national headlines numerous times for various reasons. From the Civil War burning of the Logan County Courthouse to the Hatfield-McCoy ...

Monday, Aug. 25 marked 104 years since the march to Blair Mountain began. The march, and ultimately the battle, were one of the last events of the West Virginia Mine Wars, which got their spark in ...

Ten thousand armed coal miners occupied Blair Mountain in late August 1921, facing machine gun positions, private aircraft dropping homemade bombs, and an expanding force of deputies financed by coal ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. –A new documentary produced by WCHS-TV aims to explore the Coal Mine Wars, with a focus on the Battle of Blair Mountain. The first part of the documentary aired Wednesday night on ...

MATEWAN, W.Va. (WCHS) — The West Virginia Mine Wars Museum in Mingo County is dedicated to preserving the labor history. From the Matewan Massacre to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the museum works to ...

The fight to unionize America’s coal industry culminated in a cataclysmic clash in 1921 between 10,000 Appalachian coal miners and 3,000 law enforcement and civilian coal supporters. The Battle of ...

BLOODY BATTLE: Author Taylor Brown explores the Battle of Blair Mountain in his latest work of historical fiction. “It blew my mind to learn that 100 years ago there was trench warfare on American ...

100 years ago, in the hills of West Virginia, Black, white and European immigrant coal miners banded together to demand better pay and safer working conditions and were met with machine guns. While ...