Jimtown / Phillips Cemetery

Historical marker location:

335 Jimtown Rd, Coalton, West Virginia

( Marker is on Jimtown Road (old U.S. 33) (West Virginia Route 151), on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2012

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.