The site where the graves were discovered was known as Potter's Field. For decades beginning in 1870, this place was used as a burial ground for people from Snake Hill, a complex of institutions ...

The group took Craven a half mile away from Potter’s Field, where he was hanged and shot hundreds of times. Craven claimed his innocence up until his death, and no member of the mob was ever ...

Ultimately, the upgrades also will help in destigmatizing the island – changing the negative narrative that often is associated with a potter’s field. “I think the more people you get out here, I ...

While being held at the county jail on charges of murdering a Confederate veteran and an unrelated robbery, a mob of hundreds of men broke in and took him to Potter’s Field half a mile away.