Great Bend Tunnel Construction

Historical marker location:

243 Briercliff Rd, Talcott, West Virginia

( Marker is on West Virginia Route 3/12, 0.2 miles east of Huston Road, on the right when traveling east.)

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.