Remembering Three Lynchings in Montgomery County
Historian Anthony Cohen of The Menare Foundation, Inc. reveals the stories of three racial terror lynchings that occurred in Montgomery County in 1880 & 1896.
George Washington Peck was the first recorded of the three known men who were lynched in Montgomery County, Maryland in the 19th century. Born into slavery, Peck lived in the Poolesville/Beallsville area his entire life, which was about 22 years. In January of 1880, he was accused of attempted assault on a white girl and arrested by the constable. Before he could be transported to Rockville for a trial, a crowd of local men seized him in the night and hanged him from a tree in downtown Poolesville until he died.
The only accounts that survive of his murder are those published in local newspapers, including the Montgomery County Sentinel, the Baltimore Sun, and the Washington Star, and other papers that picked up the story via the associated press at the time (Shepherdstown Register and Wheeling Register, both from West Virginia).
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Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Thursday, February 2nd 2023 at 10:12PM
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