On March 5, 1886, a white mob in Eatontown lynched Samuel Johnson, a 66-year-old black man known as “Mingo Jack.” Earlier that day, a white woman reported an assault by an assailant who asked if she knew “Mingo Jack.” The constable, accompanied by the woman’s father, arrested Mr. Johnson at…
On June 2nd Robert Lewis, a local Black resident, was mob lynched near this site. No one was held accountable for his murder…
Near this site on November 21, 1881, a mob of at least 30 White men lynched Christopher Davis- a 24-year old Black farm laborer – who lived near Albany with his wife and two children. On October 30, a White woman living near Mr. Davis reported being assaulted. Her relatives…
Hazen was named for William Babcock Hazen, who served under General Sherman in his “March to the Sea.” The town, established in 1903 to house laborers working on the Newlands Irrigation Project south of here, included hotels, saloons, brothels, churches, and schools. In 1905 the first train came through on…
On July 15, 1888, a mob of 25 to 40 white men lynched John Humphries, a Black teenager. On July 14, the daughter of a white. suburban planter reported being assaulted in the woods. Race-based suspicion was immediately directed towards Black men and boys. Later that evening, without any evidence…
On September 24, 1891, a mob of at least 20 unmasked white men lynched a Black man named Hezekiah Rankin. Earlier that evening, a white co-worker at the Western North Carolina Railroad wanted Mr. Rankin to perform duties unrelated to his job. Mr. Rankin declined, having previously been reprimanded for…