Miners’ Memorial & Immigrant Park

Welcome to Miners Memorial:

Miners' Memorial in Immigrant Park located in downtown Pittsburg on Second Street, between Pine and Walnut streets, is a tremendous asset for the community. This coal miners' memorial celebrates and preserves the rich mining and immigrant history of the deep shaft and strip miners, including auxiliary workers, in the Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field located in Cherokee and Crawford counties.

This impressive, dignified site has been made possible with the support of private gifts. Individuals, businesses, corporations, and families of the miners have provided the financial resources to fully accomplish what Louis Casaletto envisioned in the early part of this youthful century.

Purpose:

The purpose of Miners' Memorial is to honor the work and lives of the coal miners in the Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field. Construction of Miners' Memorial has been accomplished with local and regional funding.

The Memorial features a larger-than-life-size bronze statue of an era miner. There are nine black polished monuments flowing in an arc to the right of the statue. The first stone is an interpretive marker on the south side, and accompanied on the north side with the map of the Weir-Pittsburg Coal Field. The remaining eight monuments contain the names of miners who have been submitted by their families and friends. A star beside their name indicates that the miner died as a result of working in the mines.

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