george ward

Terre Haute became the first city in Indiana to participate in the Equal Justice Initiative’s “Community Remembrance Project,” which aims to put historical markers at lynching sites.

In 1901, a lynch mob murdered a Black man named George Ward on the banks of the Wabash River. 120 years later, Terre Haute will dedicate a historical marker acknowledging Vigo County’s only known lynching – an event seen by many as the city and county’s darkest moment.