Railway Route

ID: 2643 ~ 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

Charlestown, Indiana, and the railway track along which the Black prisoners were forced to travel from Henryville, Indiana, appeared on section 117 of the 1875 Clark County map, shown here.

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…