Times West Virginian | Jul 27, 2014 – Read more
The Monongah Heroine Committee started work on the $75,000 project four years ago. Committee member Russell Bonasso said the Italian government has underwritten the major cost of the monument, and the state of West Virginia has also participated in the funding. Cook Brothers Building Co. donated the land for the statue, and Petrucci Brothers Contracting built the monument.