Travel fifteen miles northwest of Trinidad to honor the striking miners and their families who lost their lives in the Ludlow Massacre.
In 1918, the United Mine Workers erected this stone monument. On-site, see storyboards and photos about life in the mining towns, the events leading up to the conflict, the leaders behind the movement, and miners’ extraordinary sacrifices to secure safer working conditions and enforce labor laws.
Read more about Trinidad’s coal mining history and the Ludlow Massacre, which left 20 people dead.