Historical Marker
Adam Stephen House
Historical marker location:
309 East John Street, Martinsburg, West Virginia
( Marker is on East John Street east of South Water Street, on the right when traveling west.)
309 East John Street. 1774-1789.
The West Virginia Mine Wars, a series of labor disputes and violent conflicts between coal miners and mining companies, took place in the early 1900s. The conflicts, which included the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, had a significant impact on the labor movement in the United States.