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The town was named Pigeon Roost because of the great number of passenger pigeons in the area. The settlement consisted of a single line of cabins stretching north and south approximately one mile north of the present town of Underwood. The nearest Native village was located some 20 miles north near the Muskatatuck River. None of the Natives ...
Date Type Dead Injured Location Details Perpetrator 2 September 3, 1812 Scalping 24 unknown Pigeon Roost Village, Northwest Territory Pigeon Roost massacre – Near the onset of the war of 1812, a war party of Shawnee Indians made a surprise attack on Pigeon Roost village, slaughtering 24 settlers.
Pigeon Roost Massacre Indiana During the War of 1812, twenty four settlers, including fifteen children, were massacred by a war party of Native Americans (mostly Shawnee, but possibly including some Lenape and Potawatomis) in a surprise attack on a small village located in what is today Scott County, Indiana.
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Pigeon Roost or Pigeonroost may refer to: Horse Creek (Kentucky), location of Pigeon Roost Creek and Pigeonroost post office; Pigeon Roost, Mississippi, a ghost town in Choctaw County; Pigeonroost, North Carolina, an unincorporated community in Mitchell County; Pigeon Roost Creek (Indiana), a stream; Pigeon Roost Creek (Missouri), a stream
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