Long Run Massacre

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The Long Run Massacre occurred on September 13, 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 British Captain Alexander McKee. Most chose to abandon that station for the better manned ones near Beargrass Creek, and had left the injured Boone and one other family behind.

The party was ambushed at thirteen-mile tree, eight miles from Linn's Station. At least seven settlers were killed, Indian losses are unknown. The survivors fled and reached Linn's Station by nightfall.