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Stokes County Jail 1880

Site of Hairston/Lindsay Lynching

The Old Paths: Marking a local tragedy

By Leslie Bray Brewer - Special to The Stokes News

Being a history buff, I love to read historical markers as I ride down the old paths. There’s the one in Walnut Cove about the Great Wagon Road coming through back in the 1700s. Germanton has one about Benjamin Forsyth—namesake of Forsyth County who died in 1814 and whose home was nearby. Now there is a group of students at the Stokes Early College High School who want a new historical marker erected in our county. If granted by the powers that be, this marker would document a horrific event that took place about four miles from Danbury near the Meadows community—the lynching of Estes Hairston and Edward Lindsay in 1881.

“Surely such things didn’t happen around here!” some of you may be thinking. I regret to tell you that “such things” actually did.

Pages 203-208: "The Hairstons - An American family in Black and White" by Henry Wiencek

Without Due Process: Lynching in North Carolina 1880-1900

Sarah Burke East Carolina University

"A Lynching in North Carolina" Tupelo Quarterly 14 - February 2018

Artress Bethany White

Artress Bethany White is the author of the collection of poems Fast Fat Girls in Pink Hot Pants (2012). She has received The Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction. Recent poetry has appeared in Ecotone, Poet Lore, The Account, Harvard Review, and The New Guard. New nonfiction appears in Blood Orange Review and is forthcoming in The Hopkins Review. She is a visiting assistant professor of American cultural studies at Albright College in Pennsylvania.

Shame on display (Updated with more details) APRIL 30, 2018 / MADISONTDAWG