The Gravesite marker reads:
"Six soldiers of those killed in the Baylor Massacre were buried here in three abandoned tan vats. The vats were part of a small tan yard which existed here before the Revolution.
The gravesite was discovered in 1967 and the soldiers were re-interred here in 1972." [2]
The plaque on the millstone reads:
"This millstone is the only visible marker of the Baylor Massacre in existence today. On September 28, 1776, a detail of Baylor's Continental Dragoons camping at Haring's Tannery in River Vale was betrayed into the hands of the British by a Tory and several were slain. The bodies of the dead soldiers were thrown into three vats at the tannery and this stone was placed over the vats to hide the bodies. Many years later, Garrett Holbrum's father dragged the stone to his home with a pair of oxen. Later, Garrett Holbrum, who was president of the school board for some score of years, presented the stone to the board of education and, in 1953, it was moved to the school which bears his name." [3]
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