Old Federal Building

Historical marker location:

Martinsburg, West Virginia

( Marker is on King Street (U.S. 11) near Maple Avenue, on the left when traveling east.)

125 S. Maple Avenue. Completed 1895.

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.