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By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), May 5, 2023
Warren, RI Marker
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1 ► Rhode Island, Bristol County, Warren — Warren, RI — Home of the Massasoit Ousamequin who met the Pilgrims in 1621 —
On Main Street (Rhode Island Route 114) at Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north on Main Street.
Indigenous people known today as the Pokanoket Tribe had made their home in the Town of Warren for thousands of years prior to the arrival of the first European settlers. The town and the surrounding area was called Sowams, and the land . . . — — Map (db m301435) HM
2 ► Rhode Island, Bristol County, Warren — Early Warren and the start of King Philip's War —
On Child Street (Rhode Island Route 103) at Hugh Cole Road, on the right when traveling east on Child Street.
The town of Warren was first settled by people from the Pokanoket Tribe, later known as the Wampanoag. The Pokanoket controlled the land from Plymouth to the eastern shores of Narragansett Bay. In 1620, “Osamequin”, which translates as “Yellow . . . — — Map (db m301430) HM
3 ► 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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