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By G.W.Bartlett, April 23, 2026
King Philip’s Cave
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1 ► Massachusetts, Norfolk County, Sharon — King Philip’s Cave —
Near Mansfield Street north of Solstice Way, on the right when traveling south.
The fact that sunbeams penetrate the high crevices of this giant boulder at the winter and summer solstice sunsets must have seemed magical to Paleolithic people wandering this area which was then a treeless tundra. Evidence suggests that . . . — — Map (db m298177) HM
2 ► 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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Nov. 13, 2026