Anawan Rock
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Anawan Rock
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| Location: | Rehoboth, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates: | 41°51′54″N 71°12′52″W / 41.865°N 71.21444°WCoordinates: 41°51′54″N 71°12′52″W / 41.865°N 71.21444°W |
| Built: | 1676 |
| Governing body: | Local |
| MPS: | Rehoboth MRA |
| NRHP Reference#: |
83000619 [1] |
| Added to NRHP: | June 6, 1983 |
Anawan Rock is a colonial historic site in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. It is a large dome of conglomerate rock ("puddingstone") located off of Winthrop (U.S. Route 44) in a wooded site reached by a short footpath.
The site was added to the National Historic Register in 1983.
[edit] History
On August 28, 1676, Captain Benjamin Church and his group of colonial soldiers captured Anawan, the Chief of the Wampanoags and a chief captain of Metacomet, who had been captured and killed by the colonists two weeks earlier. The capture of Anawan marked the final event in King Philip's War.[2]
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[edit] References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ taken from sign at historic site
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