From Wikipedia.
This took place September 3, 1812, in southeast Indiana near the Ohio River as part of a coordinated attack on Fort Harrison and Fort Wayne.
The site is now an Indiana State Historic Site located between Scottsburg and Henryville, Indiana, near Underwood. A one-lane road off US-31 takes the visitor to the site of a village where Indians massacred 24 white settlers.
Pigeon Roost was established in 1809 by William E. Collins, by settlers primarily from Kentucky. It got the name Pigeon Roost from the great number of passenger pigeons living in the vicinity. It essentially was a single line of cabins running north-south about one mile east of present-day Underwood.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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