Historical Marker
D-Day
Historical marker location:
32 N Davis St, Keyser, West Virginia
( Marker is on West Piedmont Street (West Virginia Route 46) just west of North Davis Street, on the left when traveling west.)
June 6, 1944.
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.