McDowell County Courthouse circa 1940; from a booklet produced by the McDowell County Chamber of Commerce |
McDowell County Courthouse in 2015 |
Matewan Police Chief, Sid Hatfield, was assassinated on the courthouse steps on 1 August 1921 by Baldwin-Felts agents working for coal mine owners during the West Virginia Mine War in the 1920s.
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