HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 20
(By Delegates Doyle, Manuel, Caputo and Manchin)
[Introduced March 4, 2004; referred to the
Committee on Rules.]
Urging the County Commission of Jefferson County to take all
reasonable steps to save and preserve the historic Jefferson
County Jail.
Whereas
, The historic Jefferson County Jail, on George Street,
in Charles Town, West Virginia, has figured prominently in the
history of West Virginia and the history of the organized labor
movement in the United States of America, being the location of the
booking and pre-trial detention of William Blizzard, the "miners'
general" at the famed Battle of Blair Mountain, and some of his
associates, at their trial, for treason, in Charles Town in 1922;
and,
Whereas
, The said historic jail is integral to the streetscape
of downtown Charles Town; therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Delegates:
The House of Delegates urges the County Commission of
Jefferson County to seriously consider the value of this structure
to the history, and, therefore, the tourism potential, of Jefferson
County and West Virginia.