Description:
A stereoview (two sepia toned photographs side by side glued upon yellow cardboard) of Bloody Brook in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. The scene shows a brook with a bridge over a wetlands or swampy area, there are two men on the bridge - one carries a fishing rod, the printed inscription on the view reads: "Bloody Brook, South Deerfield, Mass., the scene of the Indian Massacre of 1675." On the reverse is printed: "BURT'S/STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS/ OF/ SUGAR LOAF MOUNTAIN AND VICINITY. / PHOTOGRAPHED BY HOUGHTON & KNOWLTON./ HENRY M. BURT, Publisher, Northampton, Mass./ Messrs HOUGHTON & KNOWLTON are prepared to make either large or small views of/ Landscapes and Residences, at any point in the Conn. Valley. Orders solicited." The Battle of Bloody Brook was fought on September 18, 1675 between English colonial militia from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a band of Native Americans led by the Nipmuc sachem Muttawmp. The Native Americans ambushed colonists escorting a train of wagons carrying the harvest from Deerfield to Hadley during King Philip's War. They killed at least 40 militia men and 17 teamsters out of a company that included 79 militia.
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