John S. Carlile

Historical marker location:

222 W Main St, Clarksburg, West Virginia

( Marker is on West Main Street just east of South 3rd Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2016

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.