What the records say
- When
- 25 Apr 1859
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 45.18° N, 93.97° W
- Description
- "Minnesota History", "Lynching", "Wright county, Minnesota", "Rockford, Minnesota", "Murder"
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Wright County War
1859 lynching in Minnesota, US
The Wright County War, also known as the Lynching of Oscar F. Jackson, was a public lynching and the extrajudicial killing of a sharecropper, Oscar F. Jackson, by a mob in Rockford, Minnesota on April 25, 1859, for the murder of Henry A. Wallace. The death of Henry A. Wallace was never resolved and it remains a longstanding unsolved case in Minnesota.
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