The tyre swing in the woods

Missouri · United States · Execution site

Half a mile down the gravel road, off to the right, there is a cleared patch in the trees and an old tyre swing still hanging.

Drive about half a mile down this gravel road near Fredericktown, Missouri and look off into the woods on the right, and you can see a cleared place among the trees with an old tyre swing hanging from a branch.

An old man and his daughter lived there, many years ago, until she was run over by a train.

The swing was hers.

A cleared patch and a swing are all that is left of a house, which is the usual way these places go: the building rots or burns, the clearing stays open for a generation, and something made of rubber outlasts everything made of wood.

Her father stayed on afterwards, according to the account, and he is what people report.

The road is gravel and rural and the woods are private land.

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The tyre swing in the woods is in Missouri, United States.