The Pigeon Roost massacre was a Native American attack on the frontier settlement of Pigeon Roost in Indiana Territory on September 3, 1812, shortly after the outbreak of the War of 1812. A war party—mostly Shawnee, possibly including some Delaware and Potawatomi—killed twenty-four settlers, including fifteen children, and carried off two children; four of the attackers were killed. It was the first Native American attack on settlers in Indiana during the war. The settlement lay in what was then Clark County (now Scott County), about a mile north of present-day Underwood.
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