Townsend Cook was sitting in his mother’s home 136 years ago this week when a gang of white men dragged him out after a white Mount Airy woman accused him of assault. “They all said, ‘lynch him, lynch ...
More than 75 people gathered outside the historic Carroll County jail on Court Street in Westminster Sept. 8 for a solemn memorial service for lynching victim Townsend Cook. On June 2, 1885, Cook, a ...
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