Henryville 1871

ID: 2640 ~ Source: Courtesy of Charlestown-Clark County Public Library ~ Date: 1871

This file appears in: The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County

At the time of the Park Family Murders, this Methodist Church was new. The train that carried Taylor, Johnson, and Davis to Charlestown passed in front of the building.

This file appears in: The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County

The 1871 Lynching of Three Black Men in Clark County

By Diane Stepro

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…