Wagon Road

Historical marker location:

Morgantown, West Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Monongahela Boulevard (U.S. 19) 0.2 miles south of Evansdale Drive, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1994

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.