Lynching marker sits in St. Augustine FL museum closet

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Haley Harrison
Published: 6:59 AM EDT October 14, 2021
Updated: 6:59 AM EDT October 14, 2021

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. — There are dozens of monuments and markers scattered around the Plaza De La Constitución in St. Augustine, which help tell the history of the nation's oldest city.

Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center Executive Director Regina Gayle Phillips has been eager for another marker to be added to the collection. Specifically, a marker to remember Isaac Barrett, the only documented lynching victim in St. Johns County.

"That marker has been sitting in my closet here at this museum for over a year. It's here, it has been here. We were just waiting for a date," Phillips said.

A marker once stood near the Shands Bridge, where the lynching happened in 1897, but it was stolen in 2018 — less than 36 hours after it was put in place ...

https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/history/lynching-marker-waiting-placement-st-augustine/77-ab215739-e93d-41b1-b6b0-5fc4e0e85b0e

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1. Ironically enough, just like we treat the historical fact and terrorism of lynching itself.