Molly Maguire Executions

Molly Maguire Executions is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Schuylkill County, dedicated 2006.

Sanderson St.

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On June 21, 1877, six "Molly Maguires," an alleged secret society of Irish mine- workers, were hanged here. Pinkerton detective James McParlan's testimony led to convictions for violent crimes against the coal industry, yet the facts of the labor, class, and ethnic conflicts, even the existence of the organization, remain contested. Four others were hanged on this day at the county jail in Mauch Chunk; ten more were executed in Pa. through 1879.

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1864 · Map of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1871 · Plate F. East Central Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1872 · Schuylkill County. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1876 · Railway Map of the State of Pennsylvania (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1878 · Pennsylvania. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Molly Maguire Executions

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