Historical Marker
Vineyard Hills
Historical marker location:
989 Grandview Street, Wheeling, West Virginia
( Marker is on Grandview Street, on the right when traveling north.)
Marker installed: 1996
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.