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Revitalizing the old Ellicott City jail means reckoning with its racist past

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Just after midnight May 28, 1895, a mob of roughly 20 masked men descended on the old Elliott City Jail, held the jailers at gunpoint and seized Jacob Henson, a young Black store clerk who’d been convicted of murdering his boss, a white store owner.
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thebanner.com broke the news in on Monday, October 13, 2025.
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