A ceremony conducted this week collected soil into jars to recognize the lynching death of Black Boone County teenager George Bush in 1889 outside the old county courthouse.
It was a solemn honor for Mayor Brian Treece on Thursday to address a crowd gathered near the James Scott memorial plaque.
Treece joined Boone County Northern Commissioner Janet Thompson, members of the Community Remembrance Project of Boone County and other local leaders to remember and educate people about the last documented lynching in the county.
The Community Remembrance Project hosted a soil collection ceremony Thursday afternoon, and soil from the site of Scott s killing will be displayed in the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City.
The sand will also be displayed at the Boone County Government Center as a symbol of the community s commitment to working for a society that embodies justice for all, Thompson said.