Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bloody Run is a creek tributary to the East Fork Des Moines River.It flows through Humboldt County, Iowa. [1] It enters the East Fork Des Moines north of Humboldt, Iowa.It has been designated as an Outstanding Iowa Water by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, a title granted to a water body to receive stronger protection under the state's Antidegradation Rule.
The creek was the site of another bloody battle 20 years later, [4] during Bacon’s Rebellion, in 1676. More Indian incursions led the Virginia colonists to authorize Nathaniel Bacon to march against the Indians. The battle of Bacon’s Quarter Branch [5] took place near Bloody Run, and the creek was once again christened with blood.
The creek acquired its name from the rather gruesome battles of the area in the 1750s during the French and Indian War, as well as from the many travelers who were killed by the Indians who had a settlement on the site of the town eventually named after the creek. Bloody Run was laid out on June 15, 1795, by Michael Barndollar, who purchased ...
The Battle of Bloody Run was fought during Pontiac's War on July 31, 1763, on what now is the site of Elmwood Cemetery in the Eastside Historic Cemetery District of Detroit, Michigan. In an attempt to break Pontiac 's siege of Fort Detroit , about 250 British troops attempted to make a surprise attack on Pontiac's encampment.
The Blood Run Site is an archaeological site on the border of the US states of Iowa and South Dakota.The site was essentially populated for 8,500 years, within which earthworks structures were built by the Oneota Culture and occupied by descendant tribes such as the Ioway, Otoe, Missouri, and shared with Quapaw and later Kansa, Osage, and Omaha (who were both Omaha and Ponca at the time) people.
A concrete slab bridge was constructed over Bloody Run 0.7 miles (1.1 km) west of Elk Grove in 1937. It is 21.0 feet (6.4 m) long and carries State Route 2003. [9] In 1934, a Civilian Conservation Corps opened 5 miles (8.0 km) west of the village of Central, on West Branch Fishing Creek between Bloody Run and Painter Run. [10]
The "Bloody Creek Massacre" and events that triggered it are now the focus of a debate over whether to change the name of nearby Kelseyville.` (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) For the record :
Bloody Run (Iowa), a tributary of the East Fork Des Moines River, flowing through Humboldt County, Iowa, United States Bloody Run (Michigan), formerly Parent's Creek, location of the Battle of Bloody Run (July 31, 1763) in Detroit