Related Historical Markers

By Ralph Cahoon

In the Miery Swamp Marker

SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER

1 ► Rhode Island, Bristol County, Bristol — In the Miery Swamp — King Philip Fell —

Near Tower Street (at milepost 0.7), 0.2 miles south of Tower Street.

In the 'Miery Swamp,' 100 feet W.S.W. from this spring, according to tradition, King Philip fell, August 12, 1676, O.S. — — Map (db m307142) HM

2 ► Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Halifax — Wamsutta Was Taken Prisoner —

On Monponsett Street (Massachusetts Route 58) at White Island Road, on the left when traveling south on Monponsett Street.

Near this spot Wamsutta was taken prisoner by Maj. Josias Winslow, an incident said to have precipitated King Philip's War. — — Map (db m299591) HM

3 ► Rhode Island, Bristol County, Warren — Burr's Hill — Royal Pokanoket Burial Site — Sowams Heritage Area —

On Water Street south of Haile Street, on the left when traveling south.

The Sowams Heritage Area includes Barrington, Bristol, East Providence, Providence, and Warren RI, and Rehoboth, Seekonk and Swansea, MA. Sowams means "Southern Area” and was the historic home of the Pokanokets (later described as Wampanoags) . . . — — Map (db m296118) HM

4 ► Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Plymouth — Massasoit —

On Water Street at North Street, on the left when traveling north on Water Street.

Great Sachem of the Wampanoags protector and preserver of the Pilgrims 1621 — — Map (db m299589) HM

5 ► Rhode Island, Bristol County, Bristol — Mount Hope — Sacred Land of the Pokanokets — A Sowams Heritage Area Site —

Near Metacom Avenue (Rhode Island Route 136) 0.1 miles south of Mount Hope Avenue, on the right when traveling north.

Mount Hope (originally Montaup in the Pokanoket language) is a wooded promontory on the eastern shore of Bristol, Rhode Island overlooking the part of Narragansett Bay known as Mount Hope Bay. Before the European settlers arrived in New England, . . . — — Map (db m301431) HM

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