Bloody Brook

From the collections of PVMA • Digital image © Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc. • Image use information

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In September 1675, a convoy of farmers transporting grain and the soldiers escorting them, walked heedlessly into a Native American ambush in what would become South Deerfield, Massachusetts. Only a single man escaped, and the Muddy Brook at the ambush site was renamed “Bloody Brook”, due to the amount of blood running in it. A photographer recorded in this postcard the buildings and pastoral landscape of Bloody Brook in 1911. The large building in the distance is the Arms Manufacturing Company. The factory made leather pocketbooks, purses, wallets and calling card cases.

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Item typePostcard
PhotographerHugh C. Leighton Company, Manufacturers
Date1911
PlaceSouth Deerfield, Massachusetts
TopicTransportation, Travel, Tourism
Military, Wars, Battles
EraColonial settlement, 1620–1762
Progressive Era, World War I, 1900–1928
EventMetacom’s (King Philip’s) War. 1675–1676
MaterialPaper
Process/FormatPhotography; Printing
Catalog #1999.03.0026
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Hugh C. Leighton Company, Manufacturers, photographer. Bloody Brook. Photograph. 1911. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1999-03-0026/. Accessed on December 3, 2024.

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