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Headline and lead paragraph in The Atlanta Georgian of September 10, 1912, reporting the lynching of Rob Edwards Location of Forsyth County within the U.S. state of Georgia. In Forsyth County, Georgia, in September 1912, two separate alleged attacks on white women in the Cumming area resulted in black men being accused as suspects. First, a ...
Forsyth is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Georgia, United States. [5] [6] The population was 4,384 at the 2020 census, [2] up from 3,788 in 2010. Forsyth is part of the Macon metropolitan statistical area. The Forsyth Commercial Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a tourist attraction ...
[2] Name on the Register Image Date listed [3] Location City or town Description 1: Culloden Historic District: Culloden Historic District: March 13, 1980 (Hickory Grove Rd., Main, College and Orange Sts.
CUMMING, Ga. — Driving through present-day Forsyth County is like navigating an American landscape haunted by its history. Centuries-old churches and storied cemeteries carry remnants of past ...
The lynching victims – George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcom – have been commemorated by a community memorial service in 1998, a state historical marker placed in 1999 at the site of the attack (Georgia's first official recognition of a lynching), and an annual re-enactment held since 2005.
Confederate Monument, Forsyth Park (1879) (To be officially renamed "Civil War Monument" in 2018) [91] [93] General Lafayette McLaws Bust, Forsyth Park (1902). [92] Silence, city-owned Laurel Grove Cemetery (1875). [94] Springfield: Confederate Memorial, across from Effington County Courthouse (1923). [95] Talbotton: Confederate memorial
In 1912, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including 1,098 Black people scattered throughout the county. But that September, an 18-year-old white woman named Mae Crow was brutally ...
Harold G. Clarke was born in Forsyth, Georgia, on September 28, 1927, to Jack H. and Ruby Lumpkin Clarke. [1] He attended Mary Persons High School, before enlisting in the United States Army, at age 17, during the final years of World War II.