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County bridge on Vine street
Transportation
1890s
c. 1890
Vine street, Poplar Bluff
Verbatim Passage from Source
"A mob formed, took the Negro from the officers who offered no resistance and hanged him on the county bridge on Vine street."
— Source: Deem's History of Butler County Missouri (referenced c. 1890)
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What We Know From This Source
Site of a lynching in 1890.
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