Another Battle of Blair Mountain - Updated

One week after the National Register of Historic Places announced plans to list the site of the Battle of Blair Mountain, Manchin administration officials have sought to have it removed, The Charleston Gazette reports.

"Jacqueline Proctor, a spokeswoman for the Division of Culture and History, which oversees the state Historic Preservation Office, said the agency acted after a coal company lawyer raised questions about whether objections from area property owners were properly counted," the article said.

Update: Manchin tells Public Broadcasting "he and his office were not involved in the decision to ask that Blair Mountain be removed from the National Register of Historic Places. In fact, he says he was surprised to learn that the Division of Culture and History" -- an agency in one of his cabinet departments -- "had asked for the historic battlefield to be taken off the list."