Coal Miner Memorial

The plaque marks two centennials at once: Wyoming's statehood and the United Mine Workers of America, founded at Columbus, Ohio, in January 1890. The park around it was built by donations and volunteer labor and dedicated on June 1, 1990, by proclamation of Governor Mike Sullivan, with the union's officers at the ribbon. Diamondville took its name from its coal, found across the Hams Fork in 1868 and thought fine enough to pass for black diamonds. A second plaque in the park honors the men, women and children whose lives centered on the mines, and lists the memorial's donors.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fossil Butte National Monument — 12 mi
  The floor of a 52-million-year-old lake, packed with whole fish, the oldest complete bats and the only complete freshwater stingrays.

More markers nearby

• Oregon Trail Memorial (Kemmerer) — 1.0 mi
• Fossil Butte — 5.2 mi
• Old Oregon Trail (Cokeville) — 30 mi
• Cokeville — 30 mi