The Haun’s Mill (Missouri) Massacre: a mob of 240 vigilantes lynches 17 “Mormons” (Jesus Christ Church of Latter-Day Saints).

       [restored 1/14/2022]

Subsequent Events:

5/10/1857                   9/11/1857

References:

Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 113.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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