Place 60: Claude Heroux lynching - vicinity
September 1905An elm overhanging the canal on Canal Street, reached from the jail. The individual tree and its coordinate are unknown.
About Claude Heroux lynching - vicinity
The Claude Heroux lynching marker records a place along Canal Street where an old elm extended over the water in September 1905. A mob carried Heroux from the jail down to the Canal and used the tree there, so the site belongs to a short historical route connecting the civic complex with the waterfront. Neither the elm nor a verified trace of it survives on the reconstructed map. The point represents the event’s canal-side vicinity rather than a memorial or standing landmark.
Why this pin is marked B
Inferred. Worked out from routes, distances and what stands next to it.
Level B reflects two firm anchors—the route begins at the jail and reaches Canal Street beside the Canal—but no intersection, address or distance identifies the particular elm. The selected point lies along a plausible downhill connection from the courthouse and jail complex. Its tree, bank position and exact place on Canal Street are interpretive. Confidence concerns the route and waterfront setting; it does not imply that the individual tree or the precise scene coordinate has been recovered.
