Investigation at Mineola - Treatment of Convicts
Mineola, TX
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| Photo Credit | Bobby Skiles | |
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| Date | 1879 | |
| Category | Media | |
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Description
Convict labor was utilized to build the T&P thru Mineola, and on westward. The convicts were sorely abused, often worked-to-death, or murdered capriciously by the guards ... they lie in unmarked graves, all along the T&P right-of-way ... from Lake Fork Switch, in Mineola, and at several points westward ...
The Galveston Daily Press