Enoch Brown school massacre

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

[1] "Enoch Brown Incident". National Teachers Hall of Fame. May 13, 2014. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved September 29, 2018.

[2] "History of School Shootings in the United States". k12academics.com. July 26, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2024.

[3] 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).

[Middleton171-4] Middleton, p. 171

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