Liberty and Justice for All, Denied

Amos Miller, about thirty, came from the Santa Fe community in Maury County and denied the charge against him. On August 10, 1888, he was brought from Nashville to the Franklin courthouse for a special session. While his lawyers were drafting an affidavit for a continuance, about fifty armed men walked into the courtroom, seized him in front of the judge and hanged him from the railing. The sheriff drew his pistol and had it knocked from his hand. Miller's brother Charles was in the building. No grave for Amos Miller has been found.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carnton — 2.0 mi
  The McGavock farm in Franklin, worked by 44 enslaved people in 1860, that became the largest field hospital of the Battle of Franklin.
• Fort Negley — 16 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• National Museum of African American Music — 17 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 17 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.

More markers nearby

• Liberty and Justice for All, Denied — steps away
• Harpeth Academy — 0.2 mi
• St. Paul's Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi
• Chickasaw Treaty Council — 0.4 mi