Noose
One local woman, a Mrs. Jack Paterson, remembered one hanging from about 1884, when Sandpoint was just a few buildings along the railroad tracks. She was working in a commissary for the Northern Pacific, and one evening, as she was feeding five strangers, a vigilante group came in and took the men away, telling everyone to stay indoors. The next morning she looked out the window and the five men were hanging in the cottonwood grove below the section house. No explanation was ever given for why and the event was never talked about.
We do not have any documented information on this noose - was it ever used, where did it come from - but we're sure if we did it would be quite a story.
Donor: Unknown
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One local woman, a Mrs. Jack Paterson, remembered one hanging from about 1884, when Sandpoint was just a few buildings along the railroad tracks. She was working in a commissary for the Northern Pacific, and one evening, as she was feeding five strangers, a vigilante group came in and took the men away, telling everyone to stay indoors. The next morning she looked out the window and the five men were hanging in the cottonwood grove below the section house. No explanation was ever given for why and the event was never talked about.
We do not have any documented information on this noose - was it ever used, where did it come from - but we're sure if we did it would be quite a story.
Donor: Unknown
Adopted by: