This marble obelisk was erected in 1838, to commemorate the September 18, 1675, “Bloody Brook” attack in what is now South Deerfield, Massachusetts. On that day townsmen who were attempting to move their grain from Deerfield to a safer location were amushed at Muddy Brook and killed by Indigenous soldiers. The brook was afterwards renamed “Bloody Brook”. The attack occurred as part of Metacom’s (or King Philip’s) War (1675-1676.)
Allen, Frances and Mary, photographer. Bloody Brook Monument. Photograph. 1909. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1996-14-1872/. Accessed on October 16, 2024.
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