A marker on highway WV-2 recalls the 1924 disaster at Benwood, West Virginia, an explosion that killed 119 miners in Marshall County in the Northern Panhandle Region.
A marker on highway WV-2 recalls the 1924 disaster at Benwood, West Virginia, an explosion that killed 119 miners in Marshall County in the Northern Panhandle Region.
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