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Loudoun NAACP president moves to establish historical markers memorializing local lynchings
Loudoun NAACP president moves to establish historical markers memorializing local lynchings
By Nathaniel Cline, ncline@loudountimes.com Aug 30, 2018 Updated 21 hrs ago
Loudoun County NAACP President Phillip Thompson is spearheading a project to establish historical markers at the sites of three lynchings in the county. ... To Thompson's surprise, the idea to establish the markers has been welcomed by community members. ... “To be honest with you, I wholly expected {pushback},” Thompson told the Times-Mirror. “I expected it, and actually their enthusiasm to want to do this kind of threw me for a loop.”
Thompson and researchers say three lynchings of black men occurred in Loudoun County between 1880 and 1902: Page Wallace in 1880, Orion Anderson in 1889 and Charles Craven in 1902. All were between the ages of 18 and 25. ... “One of the posse on horseback put a rope on a hook around the derrick. Anderson was raised and was dead in a few minutes," Thompson said on WUSA 9, reading from an old newspaper story.
The lynchings reportedly occurred along Route 15 near Point of Rocks, in the former Potter’s Field at the corner of East Market and Catoctin Circle in Leesburg and at the old train station near Tuscarora Mill, also in Leesburg.
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"This is history. Just as they want to glorify the Confederate statue {in downtown Leesburg}, this here is also a part of their history in the state of Virginia,” Thompson told WUSA's Peggy Fox. “Almost 100 people, known lynchings in the state of Virginia.”
By Nathaniel Cline, ncline@loudountimes.com Aug 30, 2018 Updated 21 hrs ago
Loudoun County NAACP President Phillip Thompson is spearheading a project to establish historical markers at the sites of three lynchings in the county. ... To Thompson's surprise, the idea to establish the markers has been welcomed by community members. ... “To be honest with you, I wholly expected {pushback},” Thompson told the Times-Mirror. “I expected it, and actually their enthusiasm to want to do this kind of threw me for a loop.”
Thompson and researchers say three lynchings of black men occurred in Loudoun County between 1880 and 1902: Page Wallace in 1880, Orion Anderson in 1889 and Charles Craven in 1902. All were between the ages of 18 and 25. ... “One of the posse on horseback put a rope on a hook around the derrick. Anderson was raised and was dead in a few minutes," Thompson said on WUSA 9, reading from an old newspaper story.
The lynchings reportedly occurred along Route 15 near Point of Rocks, in the former Potter’s Field at the corner of East Market and Catoctin Circle in Leesburg and at the old train station near Tuscarora Mill, also in Leesburg.
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"This is history. Just as they want to glorify the Confederate statue {in downtown Leesburg}, this here is also a part of their history in the state of Virginia,” Thompson told WUSA's Peggy Fox. “Almost 100 people, known lynchings in the state of Virginia.”
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