Strategic Alliances and Trail of Broken Treaties 1700-1799

1782

Gnadenhutten Massacre of Lenape (Ohio)

Monument at the Gnadenhutten Massacre Site, located in the cemetery at Gnadenhutten, Ohio. Image: Kevin Myers
Monument at the Gnadenhutten Massacre Site, located in the cemetery at Gnadenhutten, Ohio. Image: Kevin Myers

Pennsylvania militiamen massacre and scalp over 100 non-combatant Christian Lenape, mostly women and children.

Traumatic Event