The Chair That Survived Three Fires-and the Men Who Burned a Town
The Chair That Survived Three Fires-and the Men Who Burned a TownDanger hides in plain municipal records: a ladder-back chair survived three fires (1912, 1928, 1934) and an insurance adjuster noted it had been "deliberately removed prior to ignition." Who benefits when arson, manipulated taxes, and fraudulent liens unmoor six Black farming families-and why did a single sentence sit in an archive for eighty-five years unanswered?In this episode, we follow how a septic contractor's discovery in 2019 unlocked an archived insurance report and county records that connect council votes, land…
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