Lynching.
On July 4th 1896 Sidney Randolph (28) was strung up from a chestnut tree and the woods across the train tracks from Frederick Road, now route 355 and lynched, less than a mile from the county seat.
He was the last man lynched in Montgomery County MD.
He was accused of the murder of a 7 yr old white girl, a crime he denied, and a no arrests were made of the lynch mob who came and forcibly took him from authoroties.
In Maryland, all but two of 40 lynchings were of black men between the years 1867 and 1933.
