Col. Drake

Historical marker location:

Shepherdstown, West Virginia

( Marker is on Kearneysville Pike (West Virginia Route 480), on the left when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1910

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.