The Potter's Field Cemetery in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, is located on a 5-acre (20,000 m2) plot of land at 5000 Young Street near the intersections of Young Street and Mormon Bridge Road.
In 1986 a volunteer group rehabilitated Potter's Field, adding a walkway and meditation area, as well as a listing of every burial accounted for in government and the neighboring Forest Lawn Cemetery records.
[4] Perhaps the most notorious interment in Potter's Field was that of Will Brown, an African American civilian who was lynched in downtown Omaha in 1919.
Brown was accused of raping a white woman and was lynched in front of the Douglas County Courthouse.
On October 1, 1919 Brown was laid to rest, with the interment log listing only one word next to his name: "Lynched.