Blair Mountain
Battle of Blair Mountain
The Friends of Blair Mountain help protect and commemorate the site of the 1921 Coal Field Wars Battle of Blair Mountain, West Virginia. The sites was places on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, only to have its historical status revoked in January 2010! Check out their work to keep the site listed, and see what you can do!
You can also find more by downloading information about the de-listing here and about the campaign to have the site re-listed, below:
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Hello, Can you tell me the source of this Blair Mountain photo? Do you know if there is a higher resolution copy available? thank you.
There is a slightly better version available here: http://www.wvculture.org/HiStory/labor/mwnews.html
as well as some other amazing pics!
Also here without the text overtop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain#mediaviewer/File:Blair_Mountain_Fighting.jpg