In memory of the pioneer heroes, Twenty-Two in number, massacred at Pigeon Roost defeat by the Shawnee Indians, Sept. 3, 1812
The Sixty-Third General Assembly of Indiana appropriated Two-Thousand dollars for the erection of this monument. . . . — — Map (db m245539) HM WM
This burial site is for the victims of the Pigeon Roost Massacre in 1812 and was originally marked by only a few stones and a large Sassafras tree. This stump monument denotes the area of the original tree — — Map (db m245523) HM