Maple Hill Cemetery

Historical marker location:

301 North Main Street, Petersburg, West Virginia

( Marker is on North Main Street.)

Brief Peace in the Midst of War.

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.