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Dig Where You Stand

Dig Where You Stand. Mother Jones Maryland Highway Historical Marker. Saul Schniderman , American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Located Mother Jones’ Last Residence Acquired Documentation Result: 1) Historical Marker Placed 2) Elementary School Named.

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Dig Where You Stand

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  1. Dig Where You Stand

  2. Mother Jones Maryland Highway Historical Marker Saul Schniderman, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Located Mother Jones’ Last Residence Acquired Documentation Result: 1) Historical Marker Placed 2) Elementary School Named Photo by Bob Reynolds

  3. Burgess Farmhouse ? Documentation and Detective Work • Mother Jones died at the Burgess Farmhouse in 1930 • Was this the house in 1954? • Baptist Church now on site Labor’s Heritage, Vol. 11 No. 2

  4. Burgess Farmhouse Foundation Stone Documentation • Files at Hilandale Baptist Church • Foundation stones unearthed of Burgess building Labor’s Heritage, Vol. 11 No. 2

  5. National Labor College National Labor College (formerly George Meany Center for Labor Studies) is less than a mile from the historical marker honoring Mother Jones

  6. Dig Where You Stand Resources • http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/speccol.html locate archives and manuscript collections • http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/cirl/mem_libs.htm locate labor/industrial libraries • http://www.nlc.edu/ National Labor College & George Meany Archives • http://www.iisg.nl/~w3vl/index.html Worldwide Virtual Library of Labor History • http://www.h-net.org/~labor/ Discussion network of labor History

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