The Pound Ridge Massacre

Program Type:

Local History

Age Group:

Adults, Everyone, Adults 55+
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Event Details

There will be a screening of the documentary ​Pound Ridge Massacre followed by a Q&A with its director Jon Scott Bennett.

In March of 1644 a combined force of Dutch and English forces in the Hudson Valley attacked a Native village in the area of Pound Ridge, the horrific climax to the conflict known as Kieft’s War.

This event is co-sponsored by the Yonkers Historical Society.