The Pocumtuck Hotel, built in 1805,  stood in the center of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Its large assembly rooms attracted local and out-of-town traffic. Of particular interest was the hatchet-scarred door salvaged from a house that had survived a 1704 attack by French soldiers from Canada with their Native American allies. A fire in 1877 destroyed the hotel and prompted a group of local men to brave the flames to rescue the old “Indian House Door.” An even larger hotel replaced the Pocumtuck Hotel in 1881. It, too, burned in 1883. A final hotel became a dormitory when Deerfield Academy purchased the lot in 1935. The academy tore down the building and erected the Pocumtuck Dormitory in 1956.