The site where Leo Frank was lynched – a small copse called Frey’s Gin in Marietta, Georgia – has now been built over and forms part of the large Roswell Road. The nearest site to where the lynching actually happened is a dentist’s office called Atlanta Dentures, on the corner of Roswell Road & E Freys Gin Ct. In fact, there is a lone tree in the courtyard which is thought to be from the original copse. Could it be the actual tree Leo Frank was lynched in?
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Could this be the tree Leo Frank was lynched from?
In 1995, on the 80th anniversary of the lynching, a plaque was placed on the building …
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… and another next to it in 2005:
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In 2008, a state historical marker was erected by the Georgia Historical Society, the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, and Temple Kol Emeth, near the building at 1200 Roswell Road, Marietta:
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