Clash at Corricks Ford

Historical marker location:

400 Poplar St, Parsons, West Virginia

( Marker is on Poplar Street, 0.1 miles south of Mill Street, on the left when traveling south.)

Death of Garnett. The First Campaign.

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.