Following the Civil War, violent resistance to equal rights for African Americans and an ideology of White supremacy flourished across the United States, and lynching emerged as a notorious form of racial terrorism intended to intimidate Black people and enforce racial hierarchy and segregation. More than 6.500 Black people were lynched in the United States between 1865 and 1950, as White people’s allegations against Black people were rarely subject to scrutiny and often sparked violent reactions even when there was no evidence tying the accused to any offense. Stereotypes portraying Black men as a dangerous threat to White women fueled violence against Black men like Henry Howard and contributed to Ohio’s 1877 anti-miscegenation law outlawing interracial relationships. Lynching in Ohio shared many characteristics with Southern racial terror, including public spectacle killings before crowds numbering in the thousands, and it inflicted trauma on the entire African American community while claiming the lives of at least 15 Black people in the state. Near this site on June 19, 1885, a mob of about 1.000 White people lynched Henry Howard, a Black man who had arrived in Coshocton the previous day seeking work in the mines. After reports that two young White women had been assaulted a mile east of West Lafayette on the evening of June 18, Howard was passing a saloon near Coshocton when a White man presumed him guilty, seized him, and turned him over to the sheriff, who jailed him. A mob immediately surrounded the jail and grew through the next day to prevent his transfer to another county. Around II p.m. that night, masked men marched down Chestnut Street, raided the jail without resistance from the sheriff, dragged Howard to the court square to cheers from the crowd, lynched him, and left his body hanging until the next morning. Members of the mob took parts of his corpse as souvenirs, and one of his toes was displayed in a jewelry store on Main Street well into the 20th century. Afterward, a Black barber in Coshocton received a note threatening to lynch any Black man caught with a White woman and warning all Black people to leave town, and no one was held accountable for Howard’s killing.