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Mother Jones' Prison

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Area
  
less than one acre

Added to NRHP
  
April 27, 1992

NRHP Reference #
  
92001876

Removed from NRHP
  
September 22, 1997

Mother Jones' Prison

Location
  
305 Center St., Pratt, West Virginia

Mother Jones' Prison, also known as Mrs. Carney's Boarding House, was a National Historic Landmark located at Pratt, Kanawha County, West Virginia. It was a large two-story structure constructed by the Willis Brothers and used mostly as a boarding house. It was the "prison" in which labor organizer and agitator Mary Harris "Mother Jones" was detained during the 1912-1913 mine wars.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It was delisted in 1997, after demolition in 1996.

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Mother Jones' Prison Wikipedia