Located near the Chattahoochee River, Omaha is a community with lots of history. If you’re in the area, it’s worth a visit.
An interesting bit of trivia: It was mentioned as the location of a fictional lynching in James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses. “Hanging over the bloody paper with Alf looking for spicy bits instead of attending to the general public. Picture of a butting match, trying to crack their bloody skulls, one chap going for the other with his head down like a bull at a gate. And another one: Black Beast Burned in Omaha, Ga. A lot of Deadwood Dicks in slouch hats and they firing at a Sambo strung up in a tree with his tongue out and a bonfire under him. Gob, they ought to drown him in the sea after and electrocute and crucify him to make sure of their job”.
Vanishing Georgia: Photographs by Brian Brown 
That did not happen in Georgia. It was in Nebraska. Up north.
Nebraska Studies
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The headline was: “Black Beast First Stick-up Couple. … Some of the crowd grinned while watching the burning of Will Brown’s body; Omaha, Nebraska, Sept.
Missing: Ga | Must have: Ga
I was quoting the book…interesting that Mr. Joyce referenced Georgia instead of Nebraska, but he did. I don’t know if he consciously made the decision to make it a Southern case or if it was an oversight. Since I’m not a Joyce scholar, I may never know 🙂
The extended references to lynchings don’t exactly make me feel welcome.