Morewood Massacre

Morewood Massacre is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Westmoreland County, dedicated 2000.

Moorewood St. (Rt. 981)

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On April 2, 1891, at the nearby Morewood Mines of the H.C. Frick Coke Co., sheriff's deputies killed seven strikers; two more died later. These were among some 16,000 workers striking for higher wages in the coke region. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of the original seven victims, who were buried in a mass grave in St. John's Cemetery, Scottdale. By late May the strike had collapsed, & the organizing of coke workers suffered a severe blow.

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1872 · Westmoreland, Fayette counties. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1884 · Industries Of Western Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Pennsylvania (western portion). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Map of Pennsylvania. 93 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1902 · Connellsville, Pennsylvania (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Industries Of Western Pennsylvania, 1884, covering the location of Morewood Massacre, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Industries Of Western Pennsylvania, 1884, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Morewood Massacre

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