Massacre in the King's Philip's War
South Hadley, MA - This is a monument for a massacre on September 18, 1675 in King's Philip's War, English against the Indians.
On the inscription is the word, "ambuscaded", which means ambushed. On the bottom was a reference to a stone slab that was 21 rods south of this monument(rod is 5.5 yards). I did not see this slab.
Labels: Monument, South Hadley MA, War
posted by Bill @ 7:26 PM
4 Comments:
Hi, I just stumbled upon your photo on the Hadley monument when I was researching the King Philip's War. Great blog.
This monument is NOT located in Hadley or South Hadley, Mass., but is, in fact, located just north of the center of South Deerfield, Mass. only a few yards aways from "bloody brook".
Question... Is the monument referring to a massacre of local Indians?
It was the other way around, the soldiers were massacred by the Indians.
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