O que dizem os registros
- Quando
- 8 de nov. de 1889
- Tipo
- Homicídio
- Coordenadas
- 39.11° N, 77.56° W
- Description
- murder of teenager in Virginia in 1889
Lynching of Orion Anderson
Murder of a Virginia teenager in 1889
Orion Anderson was a 14-year-old African American who was shot and then hanged by a white mob, on November 8, 1889, in Leesburg, Virginia. His murder was the second of three recorded lynchings in Loudoun County, Virginia, between 1880 and 1902. On Juneteenth 2019, a historical marker was placed at the site of the old rail station where he was killed.
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