In August 1881, Falmouth found itself at the center of a racial flashpoint that nearly turned deadly. A Black man named Dick Coleman was arrested and charged with the murder of 12-year-old Mary Ball, a white girl whose body was […]
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Long before the courthouse, the council chambers, and the brick grid of downtown, the Forks of the Licking held something that’s not on your tourist brochures, mounds. Not hills. Not riverbanks. Built mounds. The kind that say, someone was here […]
Murphy’s Island: When Falmouth Knew How to Gather By Whisper One Before TikTok, before town drama was passed around in screenshots and whispers, Falmouth came together on a chunk of land called Murphy’s Island and it was loud, festive, and […]
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