. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The broad street at Hadley, one mile long androds wide to return to live with her Deerfield kindred. A garri-son house escaped the torches of the raiders. Its front The Connecticut Valley 127 door, in which the Indians hacked a hole with theirtomahawks to shoot through at its inmates, hasbeen preservedamong thetreasures ofthe remark-able museumof antiquitiesthat the townpossesses. Inthe southernpart of Deer-field, beside asluggish littlebrook, is amonumentwhere seventy-one personsslain there bythe Indians areburied in a. common grave. The st
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. The broad street at Hadley, one mile long androds wide to return to live with her Deerfield kindred. A garri-son house escaped the torches of the raiders. Its front The Connecticut Valley 127 door, in which the Indians hacked a hole with theirtomahawks to shoot through at its inmates, hasbeen preservedamong thetreasures ofthe remark-able museumof antiquitiesthat the townpossesses. Inthe southernpart of Deer-field, beside asluggish littlebrook, is amonumentwhere seventy-one personsslain there bythe Indians areburied in a. common grave. The stream has been Fighting Joe Hooker, the most notableNew England general in the Civil War called Bloody Brook ever smce. At Turners Falls occurred another desperate battlewith the Indians in which both they and the whitessuffered severely. It was in the spring when the Indi-ans were there to fish. They were surprised at day-break while asleep, and many of them were driven into 128 New England the water and were swept to their death over thefalls. But Indians came from other camps, and theretreat of the English was a tragedy. A few miles farther up the river is Northfield, orSquakheag, as it was originally called. At the out-break of King Philips War it was on the far frontier and had been set-tled only threeyears. Herewere seven-teen thatchedcabins, achurch, a logfort, and astockade ofrough logseight feet highpierced withloopholes. One day in early September, while someof the men were working in the meadows, a band ofIndians under Sagamore Sam and another chief known
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