Murder Site

ID: 2642 ~ Source: Courtesy of Historic Indiana Maps, IUPUI University Library ~ Date: 1875

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

Completed 4 years after the murders, in 1875, the Clark County Land Ownership Map marks the land occupied by the Kirk family and the Park family. Notice the church above the Kirk farm; unlocking this building had been the responsibility of Cyrus Park.

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…