Historical Marker
Daniel Davisson DAR Cemetery
Historical marker location:
635 West Main Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia
( Marker is on West Main Street east of Sumner Street, on the right when traveling east.)
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.