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Interior of stone mine supply house. Used as a staging area for company guards and other defense forces during the Battle of Blair Mountain.

13. Stone Mine Supply House, Ethel Hollow in Logan Co., W. Va.

IDNO:
040672
Title:
Stone Mine Supply House, Ethel Hollow in Logan Co., W. Va.
Date:
1991/08/08
Description:
Interior of stone mine supply house. Used as a staging area for company guards and other defense forces during the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Interior of a structure used during the Battle of Blair Mountain. Soon after this photograph was taken the building was razed.

14. Stone Mine Supply House, Ethel Hollow in Logan Co., W. Va.

IDNO:
040673
Title:
Stone Mine Supply House, Ethel Hollow in Logan Co., W. Va.
Date:
1991/08/08
Description:
Interior of a structure used during the Battle of Blair Mountain. Soon after this photograph was taken the building was razed.
Southwest exterior of structure used during the Battle of Blair Mountain.

15. Stone Mine Supply House, Ethel Hollow in Logan Co., W. Va.

IDNO:
040674
Title:
Stone Mine Supply House, Ethel Hollow in Logan Co., W. Va.
Date:
1991/08/08
Description:
Southwest exterior of structure used during the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Area where the battle between coal miners and the coal companies took place in 1920 over the unionization of the miners.

16. Looking Up Right Fork of Crooked Creek at Blair Mountain, Logan Co., W. Va.

IDNO:
040675
Title:
Looking Up Right Fork of Crooked Creek at Blair Mountain, Logan Co., W. Va.
Date:
1991/07
Description:
Area where the battle between coal miners and the coal companies took place in 1920 over the unionization of the miners.
Fortification for those fighting in the Battle of Blair Mountain.

17. Fox Holes at North Crest, Blair Mountain, Logan Co., W. Va.

IDNO:
040679
Title:
Fox Holes at North Crest, Blair Mountain, Logan Co., W. Va.
Date:
1991/10
Description:
Fortification for those fighting in the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Bullet shells that remain from the Battle of Blair Mountain.

18. Shells Found In Fox Holes, North Crest, Blair Mountain, Logan Co., W. Va.

IDNO:
040680
Title:
Shells Found In Fox Holes, North Crest, Blair Mountain, Logan Co., W. Va.
Date:
1991/10
Description:
Bullet shells that remain from the Battle of Blair Mountain.
Hewitt Creek was the home to the miner's headquarters during the Battle for Blair Mountain. Homemade bombs were dropped near the headquarters by the defensive militia, missing their targets.

19. Schoolhouse at Hewitt Creek on Missouri Fork Near Blair Mountain, Logan County, W. Va.

IDNO:
040741
Title:
Schoolhouse at Hewitt Creek on Missouri Fork Near Blair Mountain, Logan County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1920's
Description:
Hewitt Creek was the home to the miner's headquarters during the Battle for Blair Mountain. Homemade bombs were dropped near the headquarters by the defensive militia, missing their targets.
Miners that were a part of the Battle for Blair Mountain imprisoned in Charleston, West Virginia.

20. Miners in Charleston Prison, Charleston, W. Va.

IDNO:
040742
Title:
Miners in Charleston Prison, Charleston, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1920's
Description:
Miners that were a part of the Battle for Blair Mountain imprisoned in Charleston, West Virginia.
Union miners, involved in a riot at the Cliftonville Mine against non-union miners, were charged and tried for murder. An estimated nine men were killed including Sheriff Harding Duval during the northern panhandle "mine war".

21. Miners Chained Together for Murder Trial, Cliftonville, Brooke County, W. Va.

IDNO:
041274
Title:
Miners Chained Together for Murder Trial, Cliftonville, Brooke County, W. Va.
Date:
1922
Description:
Union miners, involved in a riot at the Cliftonville Mine against non-union miners, were charged and tried for murder. An estimated nine men were killed including Sheriff Harding Duval during the northern panhandle "mine war".