Charles Cittie, Virginia, Charles City County History Center, Charles City County, Virginia, Isaac Brandon

The Lynching Of An African American Man In Charles City County, Virginia

Hamilton Historical Records

In 1892, a mob of masked men pulled Isaac Brandon, an African American man, out of a jail Charles City County, Virginia and lynched him.

On April 7, 2019 the Virginia Department of Historic Resources unveiled the first Virginia historical marker indicating a site of the lynching, at the Charles City County, Courthouse.

Author’s Note:

Other states the author has been to, such as Alabama, Mississippi, Olkahoma and Tennessee have established historical markers indicating lynchings. The reasons why it took so long for historical societies and historical commissions, within the state do Virignia, to finally acknowledge a negative legacy of our nations history, that was primarily utilized by whites against non-whites, by publicly advocating for and displaying historical markers where these events happened remains at this time unknown to the author.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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