Historical Marker
The Ruffners
Historical marker location:
Charleston, West Virginia
( Marker is on Kanawha Boulevard, 0.1 miles west of Elizabeth Street, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1964
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.