Site of A Black Teen Lynched in Clark County
This file appears in: The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County
In This Place We Call Home: A History of Clark County, Indiana, Carl Kramer lists another lynching in Clark County in 1883, when a Black Sellersburg teen was hung near the railroad station for an alleged attempted rape. The body hung near the station where this photo was probably taken.
This file appears in: The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County
The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County
At Charlestown Cemetery in Clark County the mutilated bodies of three lynched men are buried. On a Saturday in November of 1871, the family of Cyrus Park, a white farmer who lived near Henryville, Indiana, was murdered. Using the Parks' own axe, the…