Roslyn Coal Mining

The panel's rough reception had a shape. When the Knights of Labor struck the mines in 1888, the Northern Pacific hired James Shepperson, a Black businessman, to recruit miners in the East and Midwest, and the first men, from Streator, Illinois, did not learn of the strike until armed guards boarded their train in Montana. More than three hundred came in 1888 and 1889, the largest Black migration to Washington to that time, and by 1900 more than a fifth of Roslyn was African American. Shut out of the city cemetery, they founded their own, Olivet.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery — 28 mi
  The world's largest salmon hatchery when it opened in 1940, built to make up for the runs Grand Coulee Dam cut off, on the fishery the Wenatchi were promised.

More markers nearby

• Blewett — 21 mi