David Condos, Kansas News Service
Hays On the night of Jan. 6, 1869, Luke Barnes, Lee Watkins and James Ponder sat in jail accused of shooting a white railroad worker in this northwest Kansas town.
By sunrise, the three Black men had been dragged from their cell by a mob of white townspeople and hanged from a railroad trestle over the creek that separates the town from Fort Hays, where the men were stationed in the U.S. Army. A Leavenworth newspaper reported that the town “indulged them in a dance in mid-air.”
One hundred and twenty years later in 1989 the county commission gave a 5-mile stretch of road near that bridge a new name drawn from that ugly history: Noose Road.
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