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Stumps Run Massacre
In January 1768, a 33-year-old German-American settler and his 19-year-old servant, named Frederick Stump and John Ironcutter, were found to be responsible for the deaths of four Native American men, three Native American women, and three children over a two-day period. Four of the men and two of the women were killed at Stump's cabin, which was located at the mouth of the Middle Creek near Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. After Stump and Ironcutter shoved the bodies through a hole in the ice, they traveled up the creek to Stump's Run (the site of present-day Middleburg, Pennsylvania) to kill the remaining woman and the children. These bodies were thrown into the natives' cabins, and the cabins were burned. Stump and Ironcutter were imprisoned in Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Stump House
The Frederick Stump Tavern-Inn is a historic house in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. It was built by Colonel Frederick Stump, an early settler of Nashville who arrived in the region as part of the first group of white settlers at Fort Nashboro in 1779. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since April 2, 1973. The two-story building is constructed of red cedar logs and has eight rooms, including two sleeping rooms on the upper floor and one on the bottom floor. It originally sat closer to the road, but was moved back approximately 100 feet when Buena Vista Pike was widened. The structure is directly down the street from the Alexander Ewing House, another listed historic building constructed in 1821 that sits approximately 850 feet to the north of the Stump House. Frederick Stump Frederick Stump was born circa 1724. In Pennsylvania by the 1760s he was known to be aggressive in Native American territory. In January 1768, he killed or helped to kill ten nativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
