Coal Miners - Indianapolis, Indiana
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gparkes
N 39° 46.141 W 086° 09.788
16S E 571675 N 4402455
This memorial to the coal miners of Indiana is on the west lawn of the Indiana Statehouse.
Waymark Code: WM70R0
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 08/15/2009
Views: 13
Without coal the marvelous social and industrial progress which marks our civilization could not have been achieved. But the production of this vital commodity, so essential to the world's progress, has cost the lives of thousands of "coal miners" in Indiana, it is to the supreme sacrifice of these men that this memorial is dedicated.
(Text of the Marker)
Completed in 1966
Sector of the workforce: Coal Miners
Created or Donated by which group: John Szaton Sr.
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