This story contains graphic details of racial violence, including lynching.
On a small shelf in an old brick building in Belmont County sit 14 jars of soil. Each is labeled with an Ohio city alongside a man’s name and contain dirt from sites across the state where the men were lynched.
The jars are on temporary display at the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, before the museum moves into its new home in Morristown, 8 miles down the road, this fall…