A small monument in Oak Hill marks the city where driver Charles Carr discovered that country singer Hank Williams had died in the back seat of his Cadillac on New Year's Day 1953. The marker gives travelers a physical stop tied to one of American music's most famous and grim road-trip stories.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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