Mammoth Mine disaster
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The Mammoth Mine disaster or Frick Mine explosion occurred on January 27, 1891 just after 9:00 AM in the Mammoth No. 1 mine in Mount Pleasant Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Newspapers re
Mine entrance, now blocked
The site today. Left: memorial to miners killed. Right: entrance to mine, now blocked.
Mine entrance closeup. Mine cart at right.
Memorial marker.
Morewood massacre
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The Morewood massacre was an armed labor-union conflict in Morewood, Pennsylvania, in Westmoreland County, west of the present-day borough Mount Pleasant in 1891.
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Laborers at Morewood Works, c.1890
Morewood Road in Mount Pleasant as it appeared in 2024
Marker commemorating the Morewood massacre
Names of strikers killed in Morewood labor unrest