{"nrhp_refnum":"70000519","name":"Gnadenhutten Massacre Site","other_names":["Gnadenhutten Massacre Site State Memorial"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"S of Gnadenhutten on county rte.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Gnadenhutten","county":"Tuscarawas County","state":"OH","lat":40.35434583400007,"lon":-81.43495542499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-11-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Religion"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly nine-acre site south of Gnadenhutten in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where the Moravian mission of Gnadenhutten (founded October 1772) stood and where a massacre of Christian Delaware Indians occurred on March 8, 1782. It is now a state memorial with a simple obelisk and graves.","why_significant":"The site marks the 1782 killing of about ninety peaceful Moravian Indian converts by Pennsylvania militia, who wrongly believed they aided the British. The massacre ended a successful Moravian mission among the Delawares, and later efforts to re-establish the Tuscarawas towns were less successful.","narrative":"This memorial south of Gnadenhutten, Ohio, marks the place where a Moravian mission for Delaware Indians was founded in October 1772 and where most of its residents were killed on March 8, 1782. The mission was established with help from missionary David Zeisberger, who won many converts. During the Revolutionary War the Moravian Indians stayed neutral, but frontier settlers suspected them of aiding the British. About 150 mounted militiamen from Washington County, Pennsylvania, reached the town, disarmed the residents, and voted to put them to death. Mission records show ninety were killed, while the militia returned with ninety-six scalps. Two boys escaped and warned other Christian Indians. No buildings of the mission survive. A simple obelisk and the graves of the victims mark the ground, which the Gnadenhutten Cemetery Association gave to the State of Ohio in 1931. A museum on the grounds is operated by the local historical society.","period_of_significance":"March 8, 1782","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Nothing remains of the original mission; the site is marked by an obelisk and graves, given to the State of Ohio in 1931 and run as a state memorial, with a museum operated by the Gnadenhutten Historical Society.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.252141-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/70000519.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991770","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/tuscarawas-county/gnadenhutten-massacre-site-70000519/"}