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Title
Gnadenhutten
Indian
monument
Subject
Monuments--Ohio
Memorials--Ohio
Obelisks
Gnadenhutten Massacre, Gnadenhutten, Ohio, 1782
National Register of Historic Places
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Gnadenhutten (Ohio)
Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
Description
Reverse
reads
:
“Monument
erected
in
memory
of
death
of
90
Christian
Indians
at
Gnadenhutten
O
.
Tus
.
Co.”
This
photograph
shows
a
35
foot
tall
limestone
(another
account
says
Indiana
Marble)
obelisk
bearing
the
inscription
(on
the
south
side)
: "Here
triumphed
in
death
ninety
Christian
Indians
,
March
8
,
1782.
" The
north
side
bears
the
date
of the
dedication
ceremony
. The
Gnadenhutten
Monument
Fund
commissioned
R.S
.
Miller
of
Indiana
to
construct
the
memorial
, in
1871
.
It
stands
in the in the
center
of the
old
village
, in the
Gnadenhutten
Historical
Park
and
Cemetery
, on
Cherry
Street
. The
Gnadenhutten
massacre
, also
known
as the
Moravian
massacre
, was the
killing
on
March
8
,
1782
, of
ninety-six
Christian
Lenape
(Delaware)
by
colonial
American
militia
from
Pennsylvania
during
the
American
Revolutionary
War
. The
incident
took
place
at the
Moravian
missionary
village
of
Gnadenhütten
,
Ohio
,
near
present-day
Gnadenhutten
. The
site
of the
village
was
preserved
. A
reconstructed
cabin
and
cooper's
house
were
built
there, and a
monument
to the
dead
was
erected
. The
village
site
has been
listed
on the
National
Register
of
Historic
Places
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photgraphs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
SA1039AV_B14F01_004_001.tif
Image Height
4331
Image Width
3168
File Size
41184104 Bytes
Display File Type
image/jp2
Format
picture
Date created
2011-02-15
Date modified
2011-02-28
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