Only Union Owned Cemetery in the Country - Mt. Olive IL
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 39° 04.843 W 089° 43.910
16S E 263696 N 4329286
On Old US Route 66, in addition to over 1 thousand miners grave sites, it is also the location of the United Miner Workers "Battle of Virden" Memorial, and the Monument and grave of "Mother" Jones.
Waymark Code: WMJK2C
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2013
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member silverquill
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County of site: Macoupin County
Site name: Union Miners Cemetery

Text from the Illinois Labor History Society:
"The only union-owned cemetery in the country, and the fascinating story of why it came to be. Mother Jones is buried there." For full story: Illinois Labor History Society

This text also declares it as the ONLY Union cemetery in the Nation: Illinois State Historic Society

Type of documentation of superlative status: History society text

Location of coordinates: cemetery gates

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