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Podcast: History Unplugged Podcast
Episode: The Deerfield Massacre: The Infamous 1704 Indian Raid That Left Hundreds Dead and More Captured
Description: In an obscure village in western Massachusetts, there lies what once was the most revered but now totally forgotten relic from the history of early New Englandâthe massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre. This impregnable barricadeâknown to early Americans as âThe Old Indian Doorââconstructed from double-thick planks of Massachusetts oak and studded with hand-wrought iron nails to repel the flailing tomahawk blades of several attacking native tribes, is the sole surviving artifact from the most dramatic moment in colonial American history: Leap Year, February 29, 1704, a cold, snowy night when hundreds of native Americans...