Enoch Brown Memorial Park
Enoch Brown Memorial Park is a historic and peaceful park featuring memorials and plaques commemorating a significant event in American history. The park offers marked hiking trails, a playground with slides and swings, picnic tables, and is kid-friendly. It is wheelchair accessible with accessible parking and entrance. While the trails can be overgrown and the park is somewhat small and off the beaten path, it provides a quiet place for outdoor activities and education about the area’s past.
Reviews
We were disappointed in this park. It is well off the beaten path, quite small and there’s not a ton to do or see. The trails were decently marked but overgrown and buggy. The playground equipment was sparse and old. There was no clear parking area. The pavilion seemed decent, though it was overrun with spotted lantern flies when we were there. The historical plaques and markers were interesting and in good shape. Pit latrines were clean but again very basic. We visited this park as part of the Get Outdoors Franklin program (which I would highly recommend) and though it was peaceful we probably won’t return.
Amazing historical site!! The kids loved the playground and the history lesson. So did the adults!
Worth the stop to learn about this massacre. The location is fairly simple with monuments and plaques, this true story is amazing! I took one star away because three adults could not identify the location of the original schoolhouse.
Great park that has a long history behind it. Sad story of what happened there but the park is clean and well maintained
This spot marks a very important and still very relevant area of American history. Nearly 260 years ago almost to the day (when you are counting so many years), the first school Massacre in U.S. history occurred; July 26, 1764 4 Lenape Indians entered a settlers’ schoolhouse and killed Enoch Brown the headmaster and ten of his students. The casualties of the incident (schoolmaster and children) were buried in a common grave at the site, later excavated to confirm. It is now used as a park with some walking capabilities -playground equipment for the kids and marked hiking and walking trails. Heard a lone Eastern wood Pewee in the woods on this broiling hot day. I tried to add Archie McCullough spring as an individual historic landmark and google would not allow it- walking into the woods below the monument for Enoch Brown and the grave marker of the students’ is a placque in the woods placed there to memorialize the location of the one survivor of the massacre who was found by the spring after the event trying to wash the blood from his body- he had been scalped but was alive.
We were disappointed in this park. It is well off the beaten path, quite small and there’s not a ton to do or see. The trails were decently marked but overgrown and buggy. The playground equipment was sparse and old. There was no clear parking area. The pavilion seemed decent, though it was overrun with spotted lantern flies when we were there. The historical plaques and markers were interesting and in good shape. Pit latrines were clean but again very basic. We visited this park as part of the Get Outdoors Franklin program (which I would highly recommend) and though it was peaceful we probably won’t return.
Amazing historical site!! The kids loved the playground and the history lesson. So did the adults!
Worth the stop to learn about this massacre. The location is fairly simple with monuments and plaques, this true story is amazing! I took one star away because three adults could not identify the location of the original schoolhouse.
Great park that has a long history behind it. Sad story of what happened there but the park is clean and well maintained
This spot marks a very important and still very relevant area of American history. Nearly 260 years ago almost to the day (when you are counting so many years), the first school Massacre in U.S. history occurred; July 26, 1764 4 Lenape Indians entered a settlers’ schoolhouse and killed Enoch Brown the headmaster and ten of his students. The casualties of the incident (schoolmaster and children) were buried in a common grave at the site, later excavated to confirm. It is now used as a park with some walking capabilities -playground equipment for the kids and marked hiking and walking trails. Heard a lone Eastern wood Pewee in the woods on this broiling hot day. I tried to add Archie McCullough spring as an individual historic landmark and google would not allow it- walking into the woods below the monument for Enoch Brown and the grave marker of the students’ is a placque in the woods placed there to memorialize the location of the one survivor of the massacre who was found by the spring after the event trying to wash the blood from his body- he had been scalped but was alive.