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Gainesville, Texas, is a patriotic small town. It’s also the site of one of the nation’s worst acts of mob violence. Check out reporter Abby Rapoport’s piece about a town whose history some citizens would like to forget. (The above depiction, from the Feb. 20, 1864, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, is apocryphal—the victims were actually hanged one or two at a time.)

Gainesville, Texas, is a patriotic small town. It’s also the site of one of the nation’s worst acts of mob violence. Check out reporter Abby Rapoport’s piece about a town whose history some citizens would like to forget.

(The above depiction, from the Feb. 20, 1864, issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper, is apocryphal—the victims were actually hanged one or two at a time.)

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