Attendance was up last June at a three-day Hatfield and McCoy festival held in Matewan and Williamson in West Virginia and in Pike County in Kentucky. The event featured tours, re-enactments ...

Resident Wilma Steele, whose husband is a retired union miner, said she didn’t read about the battles of Matewan and Blair Mountain until she went to college. Now the Kentucky border town of about 430 ...

The combination of perilous working conditions and miner-guard tensions led to a massive strike in 1912 in southern West Virginia (Matewan sits on the state’s southern border with Kentucky).

The Tug Fork River was the biggest concern from Matewan to Williamson ... also owns several motorcycles and 50 acres of property in Kentucky. He says he keeps checking his properties to see ...

Along the West Virginia-Kentucky line, some 3,000 miners responded ... arrived in the Mingo County town of Matewan on the Tug Fork to evict striking miners and their families from company houses.