Home The Battle of Stanaford: A massacre in W.Va. vanished from the pages of labor history Section of 1891 USGS map showing Beckley (Raleigh)

Section of 1891 USGS map showing Beckley (Raleigh)

Union organizers travelled from Qunnimont to Adkinsville, then a section of Beckley, mapped here as "Raleigh."

Section of 1913 USGS map showing Stanaford

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