What the records say
- When
- 16 Nov 1900
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 39.26° N, 103.69° W
- Description
- 1900 lynching in Colorado, U.S
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Lynching of Preston Porter Jr.
1900 murder in Limon, Colorado, United States
Preston John Porter Jr. was a black boy who was abducted and lynched by a mob near Limon, Colorado, United States. Porter had arrived in Colorado from Lawrence, Kansas, with his father and brother in 1900; the three were in Denver on November 11, 1900, when they were stopped, questioned, and arrested on suspicion of the murder of an 11-year-old white girl which had taken place eight days prior.
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