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The Changing Faces of H Street

Hub, Home, Heart

The handsome church on this corner is the second to occupy this spot. The first was a small brick chapel built by John A. Douglas in 1878 for the new Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Soon after, it ...

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Changing Main Street

Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor

Family-owned businesses on Main Street have evolved to meet changes in demand for products. Stoner's Novelty Store is a good example. Albert Stoner built this structure in 1899 as a tinsmith workshop and store. In the 1920s, ...

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Changing Main Street

Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor

Family-owned businesses on Main Street have evolved to meet changes in demand for products. Stoner's Novelty Store is a good example. Albert Stoner built this structure in 1899 as a tinsmith workshop and store. In the 1920s, ...

Old Hanging Tree

Gallows used Sept. 12, 1879, at public hanging of "Pocket", an Indian, killer of Englishman Leonard Hyde. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1967

Marker is on Park Road 3.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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The Hanging Tree

Dedicated to Gila County Law Enforcement

From a Sycamore near this spot, L.V. Grime and C.B. Hawley were lynched on Aug. 24, 1882 for the hold up – murder of Andrew Hal, Wells Fargo Packer, and Dr. S.T. Vail. The ...

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The Hanging Tree

Site for court sessions at various times from 1846 to 1870. Capital sentences called for by the courts were carried out immediately, by means of a rope and a convenient limb.

Hangings not called for by regular courts occurred here ...

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Hanging Tree

On this tree, early morning Nov. 26, 1897 occurred the blackest episode in the history of Nevada. Adam Uber of Calaveras Co. Cal. was forcefully taken from jail abused and hanged by an angry mob, for the pistol killing of ...

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Loma Hanging Tree

Under this tree General Andres Pico hung two banditos of the Flores Gang in 1857.

Marker can be reached from Eastern Transportation Corridor (State Highway 241).

Courtesy hmdb.org

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