{{Short description|Massacre by Native Americans in frontier Kentucky}} {{Infobox civilian attack | title = Long Run massacre | image_size = | image = LONGRUN01.jpg | caption = Lake in area of the massacre as it appears in 2008 | map = {{location map|Kentucky}} | location = Floyd's Fork, Kentucky | coordinates = {{coord|38|10|56.42|N|85|29|13.28|W|region:US|display=inline,title}} | date = 13–14 September 1781 | time-begin = | time-end = | timezone = | type = Raid | fatalities = ~32 killed | injuries = | perps = Indian war parties }} {| style="float: right; clear: right; background-color: transparent; margin-left: 1.4em" |{{Campaignbox American Revolutionary War: Western}} |}
The '''Long Run massacre''' occurred on 13 September 1781 at the intersection of Floyd's Fork creek with Long Run Creek, along the Falls Trace, a trail in what is now eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky.
A day earlier, settlers at Painted Stone Station, established by Squire Boone, had learned that the fort was about to be raided by a large Indian war party under the command of Loyalist captain Alexander McKee.<ref name="Painted">Akers, Vincent J. [http://www.paintedstonesettlers.org/html/detailed_history.html History of Painted Stone Station] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405005823/http://paintedstonesettlers.org/html/detailed_history.html |date=2013-04-05 }}, Painted Stone Settlers Organization, 2012, accessdate 28 December 2012.</ref> Most chose to abandon that station for the better defended ones near Beargrass Creek, and had left the injured Boone and one other family behind. Some settlers hesitated for two days before moving toward Linn's Station.<ref name = "enc">Kleber, John E., editor. ''The Long Run Massacre'', The Kentucky Encyclopedia. University Press of Kentucky, 1992</ref> Following the loss of part of their military guard, the party was ambushed at thirteen-mile tree, {{convert|8|mi|km}} from Linn's Station.<ref name="Painted" /> At least seven settlers were killed; Indian losses are unknown. The survivors fled and reached Linn's Station by nightfall.
Despite historical markers and at least one published report indicating that at least 60 people were killed and only a few escaped,<ref name = "enc" /><ref>Clore, Lou Catherine, "The Long Run Massacre", Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 28 (January 1912): 75-6. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23367439?refreqid=excelsior%3Af9f9325183af025ac46342234402acc7&seq=18#metadata_info_tab_contents Department of Paragraphs and Clippings]</ref> only about 15 settlers were actually killed, followed by 17 soldiers under Colonel John Floyd who were attacked the following day when they went to bury their remains.<ref name="Painted" /><ref name = "Wilcox">Wilcox, G.T., [http://www.kentuckianagenealogy.org/boards/messages/687/692.html An account of the Long Run Massacre and Floyd's Defeat as told by G. T. Wilcox, Squire Boone's Grandson in a letter to Hon. Thos. W. Bullitt.] Kentucky Genealogy 28, June 2000, accessdate 28 December 2012.</ref> During the second engagement, however, a Wyandot chief present was killed, which led to the dispersal of the Indian forces and the end of McKee's raid.<ref name="Painted" />
Reenactments are held annually <ref>[https://www.paintedstonesettlers.org/reenactment.html Re-Enactment] Painted Stone Settlers. Retrieved 25 August 2020.</ref> in the Shelbyville, Kentucky area by the Painted Stone Settlers near the site of the massacre.
<gallery> Image:Squire Boone Crossing the Mountains with Stores for His Brother Daniel.jpg|''Squire Boone Crossing the Mountains with Stores for His Brother Daniel, Encamped in the Wilds of Kentucky'' (1852) Image:LOGRUN03.jpg|Park entrance sign Image:PARKLONGRUN01.jpg|Park scene </gallery>
==See also== * Fort Nelson (Kentucky) * History of Louisville, Kentucky * List of battles fought in Kentucky
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Category:Massacres in the 1780s Category:History of Louisville, Kentucky Category:Battles of the western theater of the American Revolutionary War Category:Conflicts in 1781 Category:Massacres committed by Native Americans Category:Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Kentucky Category:1781 in the United States Category:Massacres in the American Revolutionary War Category:1781 crimes in the United States Category:1781 murders Category:18th-century murders in the United States