Deerfield, Massachusetts

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Deerfield is a town located in Franklin County, Massachusetts. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 4,750.

For geographic and demographic information on the village of South Deerfield, please see the article South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Situated in northwestern Massachusetts, Deerfield was briefly on the Frontier and was exposed to raids by French and Native Americans. In the largest raid on February 29, 1704 in Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans including some from the New England Pennacook tribe attacked and destroyed Deerfield, killing 100 men, women, and children (this was the bloodiest battle in the war).

Further Reading

• Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield, University of Massachusetts Press, December, 2003, hardcover, 400 pages, ISBN 1558494197

External Links

• Historic-Deerfield.org
• Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Deerfield,_Massachusetts" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerfield,_Massachusetts, used under the GNU Free Documentation License