Mother Jones Prison, also known as Mrs. Carney's Boarding House, was located at

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. It was a large two-story structure constructed by the Willis Brothers and used mostly as a boarding house. It was the "prison" in which labor organizer and agitator

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was detained during the 1912–1913 mine wars. The building was a

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. It was listed on the

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in 1992. However, it was delisted in 1997 after being demolished in 1996.

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