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