COLFAX
Site — Colfax, Louisiana
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/colfax-colfax-louisiana/

April 13, 1873—the courthouse massacre that ended Reconstruction.

Colfax is a site in Colfax, Louisiana. April 13, 1873—the courthouse massacre that ended Reconstruction. HauntHunt files it with dark history, massacres and local folklore. Its accounts name only a collective — the colfax dead. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors.

Colfax is the massacre — the '73 Easter that killed 150, the Black militia who surrendered. The courthouse was the contested — the '72 election that was disputed, the Grant Parish that's the president's name. The Cruikshank was the ruling — the Supreme Court that freed the killers, the Jim Crow that was enabled.
The cannon was the threat — the surrender that it forced, the executions that followed. The Riot Tree was the witness — the pecan that stood near, the spot that's unmarked. Colfax is the Reconstruction's — the deadliest racial violence, the 'home rule' that was restored.
The file keeps Colfax: the 1873 massacre, the disputed election, the Cruikshank ruling, and the Riot Tree.
Colfax is the archive's Louisiana file — the Reconstruction massacre.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Colfax is the archive's Louisiana file — the Jim Crow's birth.
A courthouse keeps its tree — the file's suggestion being that Colfax's hold is the Cruikshank: the massacre that was enabled, the 150 who died, and the ruling that freed the killers.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly remembered. The presences go by the Colfax dead in the file. Colfax's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Colfax' carries the account. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.
  source: Colfax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre)
· [Media reported] historical legend: The massacre is documented history. The site in Colfax, Louisiana gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The press reported it; the reporting is documented, the phenomenon isn't. Sources including 'Colfax' keep the claim in circulation. As folklore it's unkillable: the story is too good, and the place too fitting, to let go.
  source: Colfax (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The April 13, 1873 massacre is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Colfax' documents the entry. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The file stays open on it. The report keeps its place in the record.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Colfax — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colfax_massacre

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