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.
Unidentified Photographer, photographer. Pocumtuck Hotel. Photograph. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1996-12-2195/. Accessed on October 10, 2024.
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