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Dig Where You Stand
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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
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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
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Burgess Farmhouse Foundation Stone Documentation Files at Hilandale Baptist Church Foundation stones unearthed of Burgess building Labor’s Heritage, Vol. 11 No. 2
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National Labor College (formerly George Meany Center for Labor Studies) is less than a mile from the historical marker honoring Mother Jones
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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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