Enoch Brown Schoolhouse Massacre Traditional Cache
Enoch Brown Schoolhouse Massacre
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This cache is located in Enoch Brown Park. The park hours are dawn to dusk April through October. Closed between the months of November and March.
It was the morning of July 26, 1764, during the Pontiac Rebellion. Four Delaware (Lenape) American Indian warriors entered a log schoolhouse where Enoch Brown was the teacher. Mr. Brown, a native of Virginia, was a man of liberal culture; he was noted and respected for his thoughtfulness, integrity, and Christian character.
Tradition says that on this morning the children were loath to go to school. Only eleven responded to the roll call, two girls and nine boys representing ten families. The Indians entered the school and Mr. Brown pleaded with the warriors to spare the children before he was shot and scalped. Unfortunately the children were scalped as well. Archie McCullough, the youngest student, was the only survivor. After the Indians left, he crawled down hill to the spring where he was found.
A passerby discovered the bodies a few hours after the murder. The children's bodies were removed to their respective homes; and a few days later their bodies, along with that of their teacher, were buried in one grave.
When the Indians returned to their tribe with the scalps, they were called cowards for killing the children.
Mr. McCullough lived to be quite old; but he never mentally recovered from the scalping.
One hundred and twenty-one years later, there was a dedication ceremony and the unveiling of the monument to honor the memory of School Master Enoch Brown and the eleven students: Ruth Hale, Eben Taylor, George Dustan, Archie McCullough and six others whose names were not known at that time.
Park behind the pavilion and proceed though the opening in the wooden fence. You will pass the final resting place of those killed that day. Follow along the Bell Trail and you will pass the spring where Archie McCullough was found. Continue on the trail and it will circle around to where you parked. There are three monuments in the park. Take time to visit them all.
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