The mansion site at Oliver Springs

Tennessee · USA · Manor

Two families owned most of the land here. A killing happened in one of their houses, and a Black servant boy was blamed for it. The evidence did not fit.

At one time two families owned most of the land around Oliver Springs, Tennessee, and the mansion of one of them stood where this furniture shop was later built.

A killing happened in that house.

A Black servant boy was blamed. The account handed down locally is that the case against him did not stand up, starting with the gun, and that people knew it at the time.

This is the part worth recording. In the American south of that period, a Black child accused of killing a white person had no realistic prospect of a fair hearing, and the fact that local memory has preserved the doubts rather than the verdict is itself unusual.

What became of him is not recorded in the account.

Figures are reported on the site.

Oliver Springs was a resort town in that era, built around mineral springs and a large hotel, and the families who owned it were the county's whole establishment.

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Hvor ligger The mansion site at Oliver Springs?

The mansion site at Oliver Springs ligger i Tennessee, USA.