HERRIN MASSACRE SITE
Site — Herrin, Illinois
Status: Operating · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/herrin-massacre-site-herrin-illinois/

June 21-22, 1922—the strikebreakers killed in the woods.

Herrin massacre site is a site in Herrin, Illinois. June 21-22, 1922—the strikebreakers killed in the woods. HauntHunt files it with labor history, dark history and local folklore. Its accounts name only a collective — the herrin 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.

Herrin is the '22 — the Lester who broke the deal, the 16 cars that were the shipped. The 50 were the surrendered — the safe passage that was the promise, the barbed wire that's the execution. The 214 were the indicted — the acquittals that were the 90% union, the 'no guilty' that's the record.
The superintendent was the first — the elderly and handicapped who was the killed, the march that's the Herrin. The cemetery was the second — the executions that were the lined up, the Elks sign that saved one. Herrin is the massacre — the 20+ who died, the Klan that's the context.
The file keeps Herrin: the 1922 strike, the Lester betrayal, the barbed wire, and the acquittals.
Herrin is the archive's Williamson County file — the labor war.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Herrin is the archive's Williamson County file — the strike that killed.
A mine keeps its fence — the file's suggestion being that Herrin's hold is the betrayal: the '16 cars' that broke the deal, the 'barbed wire' that's the execution, and the 'no guilty' that's the county.

FILED CLAIMS — 2 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] named ghost legend: The dead are reportedly remembered. The accounts name only a collective — the Herrin dead. The reports at Herrin massacre site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. 'Herrin' preserves the telling; the record keeps it filed where it belongs, as lore. Named ghosts are the ones that last — this one has lasted.
  source: Herrin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrin_massacre)
· [Media reported] historical legend: The massacre is documented history. Herrin massacre site's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. Coverage gave the claim its audience; proof remains another matter. Sources including 'Herrin' keep the claim in circulation. The legend does what legends do — it explains the place in a way the records can't.
  source: Herrin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrin_massacre)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· The June 1922 massacre is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Herrin' carry the record. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Herrin — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrin_massacre

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