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The Fall Creek massacre refers to the slaughter of 9 Native Americans—two men, three women, two boys, and two girls—of uncertain tribal origin on March 22, 1824, by seven white settlers in Madison County, Indiana. The tribal band was living in an encampment along Deer Lick Creek, near the falls at Fall Creek, the site of present-day ...
Feb 29, 2024 · The Fall Creek Massacre was the name given to the brutal murders of a peaceful group of Seneca and Miami Indians by white settlers. The actual massacre occurred on March 22, 1824, between Fall Creek and Deer Lick Creek. The American Indians who were killed included two men — named Ludlow and Logan — three women and four children.
Aug 14, 2024 · Justyn Marchese studies two stone piers at the mouth of Lick Creek near the New River. "Shawnee Indians, who hunted in what is now Mercer County, West Virginia, knew from time immemorial that there was a salt spring about 15 miles north of the present Virginia-West Virginia state line—about a quarter of a mile north of Lick Creek where it empties into New River.
Mar 17, 2020 · The salt came first. Even before coal mines pockmarked West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains, 19th-century pioneers dug wells into a 400-million-year-old sea trapped beneath the Kanawha Valley. But the salt boom was short-lived, fading away after the Civil War. Today, only one local salt harvester remains: J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works.
Jun 14, 2023 · WV Mine Wars Museum. June 14, 2023. Around midday on June 14th, 1921, a group of over 70 vigilante volunteers and officers with the newly-formed West Virginia state police surrounded the Lick Creek tent colony from all sides. State police and volunteers swarmed through the tents, knocking them down, breaking locks, slashing giant holes in the ...
*The murders that occurred at Deer Lick Creek in Madison County, Indiana, in 1824 have often been mistakenly referred to as the Fall Creek massacre. Jessamyn West's best-selling fictional account, The Fall Creek Massacre (1974), is one of the most recent works to employ this title.
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Virginia Frontier Defenses 1719-1795. Volume I, Number 2 (January 1940), pp. 119-130. The story of the defense of the frontier of Virginia begins about the year 1719, by which time there seems to be reasonable evidence of settlers south of the Potomac River, on what is now the soil of West Virginia. The Indian, with some misgivings, of course ...
