As this year winds down, I want to take a moment to thank you for following the Scott County Visitors Commission in our inaugural year of our website blog.  While it has been a different kind of year for many of us, if not all of us, I have tried to give you a little…

This story is follow-up installment to the three part series The Pigeon Roost Massacre of 22 Settlers.   Saturday, October 1st, 1904, passed into history as a great day for Scott County – being the day of dedication of the imposing monument erected by the State of Indiana to mark the burial place and to…

This story is the third of three installments on this blog. Each week the story will be continued for your enjoyment! Meanwhile, Capt. Norris and the children lost their way in the darkness, and after wandering hopelessly in the woods until they were exhausted, they sat down to rest and soon fell asleep, notwithstanding the…

The first warning the settlers had of an attack by the Indians was when cattle belonging to Jeremiah Payne ran bellowing toward his house, their sides full of arrows and spears. He at once took his wife, Sarah (McCoy), and little son, Lewis, to the fort at Vienna. Then he started through the woods toward the house…

This story is the first of three installments on this blog. Each week the story will be continued for your enjoyment! Pigeon Roost was a pioneer settlement, then in northern Clark County, but now in southern Scott County, Indiana, situated along the little creek by the same name. It was in a fertile, but then heavily…