Chief Wompatuck gave the land to the English settlers who used the tall trees in the forest to make masts for their ships. Then, in the 1800s, the land was used by residents for woodlots and powering mills. Even then, the Mt. Blue Spring was a . . . — — Map (db m295662) HM
Moswetuset Hummock was the seat of Chickatawbut, Sagamore of the Massachusetts Indians; adjoining were their planting grounds. "Massachusetts" means "at the Great (Blue) Hills." With Chickatawbut Governor Winthrop made a treaty which was never . . . — — Map (db m295833) HM
Before colonial times, Native Americans would have seen creeks and wetlands here in Quincy Bay, which provided them with abundant sources of food: shellfish, fish, waterfowl, and migratory birds — even whales. They lived here during spring and . . . — — Map (db m308383) HM
Moswetuset Hummock was the seat of Chickatawbut, Sagamore of the Massachusetts Indians; adjoining were their planting grounds. "Massachusetts" means "at the Great (Blue) Hills." With Chickatawbut Governor Winthrop made a treaty which was never . . . — — Map (db m295833) HM
The seat of the Sachem of that tribe of Indians from which the Colony, the Province, and the Commonwealth derive the name of Massachusetts — — Map (db m290257) HM
Before colonial times, Native Americans would have seen creeks and wetlands here in Quincy Bay, which provided them with abundant sources of food: shellfish, fish, waterfowl, and migratory birds — even whales. They lived here during spring and . . . — — Map (db m308383) HM
Site of Mohawk Indian Turtle Clan village 1667-1693 Jesuit Mission of St. Peter 1669-1684 Home of Kateri Tekakwitha "Lilly of the Mohawks"1667-1677 Mohican attack repulsed 1669 Destroyed in French raid 1693 Settled by Dutch prior to 1750 . . . — — Map (db m297301) HM
Witen is distinctive andeca feature in this region between the Catskill and Adirondack mountains. The Hollow is a deep gorge in the landscape, which was historically used as a navigation point by the Mohawk and Mohican peoples who traveled . . . — — Map (db m297303) HM
Churchill's Lane. When the Indians sold their land near the mouth of the Neponset River they removed to the territory south of the Blue Hills, which they called Ponkapoag, sweet water. — — Map (db m308385) HM
PONKAPOAG
For thousands of years this land has been inhabited
inhabited by the Massachusett Tribe.
Their seat of power was at the nearby mountain called massa-adchu-es-et (now
Great Blue Hill). They called this area Ponkapoag (today Canton, . . . — — Map (db m308307) HM
