Liberty Tree

Historical marker location:

1 Main St, Point Pleasant, West Virginia

( Memorial is on Main Street just south of 1st Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2020

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.