Island Mills

Historical marker location:

Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Shenandoah Street (Business U.S. 340), 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.