History & local legend
Enoch Brown Park near Greencastle marks the site of a schoolhouse attacked on July 26, 1764. Schoolmaster Enoch Brown and ten children were killed. Archie McCullough, the surviving pupil, crawled downhill to the spring that supplied the school’s drinking water and was found there.
The teacher and children were buried together. Their common grave remained unmarked for decades, until local efforts recovered and commemorated the site. Nearly five thousand people attended the monument’s unveiling in 1885, according to the history preserved by the Allison-Antrim Museum.
Visitors later reported seeing children in the grove where the school once stood. Those sightings appear in Franklin County’s ghost-story collections, keeping the reported figures close to the school site, spring and memorial.
