Patrick Gass

Historical marker location:

Wellsburg, West Virginia

( Marker is on Commerce Street (West Virginia Route 2) north of 22nd Street, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 2002

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.