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