The Hanging of J.G. McCrory - Visalia, CA
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N 36° 19.849 W 119° 17.265
11S E 294659 N 4023071
ECV marker about an incident that caused bad men to give Visalia a wide berth in the years after 1872.
Waymark Code: WMGZ3N
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/26/2013
Views: 8
Monument placed in 2003 by Dr. Samuel Gregg George Chapter 1855 of ECV.
The monument describes the murder of a bar owner, the capture of the culprit in an outhouse, and his subsequent hanging by a mob of towns people. As the marker says "MCCORY'S CLOSING ACT WAS SHORT, TUESDAY AM ARRIVED FROM ARIZONA, MURDERED A MAN IN THE AFTERNOON, AND WAS HUNG IN THE EVENING".
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