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Enoch Brown school massacre
| Enoch Brown school massacre | |
|---|---|
 Memorial erected in 1885, near Greencastle, Pennsylvania | |
| Location | Greencastle, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Date | July 26, 1764 |
| Target | Students and staff at Enoch Brown school |
Attack type | School shooting, mass murder, bludgeoning |
| Deaths | 11 |
| Injured | 1 |
| Perpetrators | 4 Delaware Lenapes |
On July 26, 1764, four Delaware (Lenape) Native Americans entered a settlers' log schoolhouse in the Province of Pennsylvania and killed the schoolmaster, Enoch Brown, and ten students. One other student named Archie McCullough was wounded.[1] The massacre is the first school shooting recorded in U.S. history.[2] Historian Richard Middleton described the massacre[3] as "one of the most notorious incidents" of Pontiac's War.[4]
- ^ "Enoch Brown Incident". National Teachers Hall of Fame. May 13, 2014. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
- ^ "History of School Shootings in the United States". k12academics.com. July 26, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
- ^ Variations on the name in sources include the "Enoch Brown massacre" and the "Enoch Brown Indian massacre". Dixon calls it the "Enoch Brown Schoolhouse Massacre" (p. 223).
- ^ Middleton, p. 171
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