Historical Marker
Brinkman Block
Historical marker location:
70 West Main Street, Grafton, West Virginia
( Marker is on West Main Street (U.S. 119) just east of Latrobe Street, 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.