Anawan Rock

Anawan Rock
Location Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°51′54″N 71°12′52″W / 41.86500°N 71.21444°W / 41.86500; -71.21444Coordinates: 41°51′54″N 71°12′52″W / 41.86500°N 71.21444°W / 41.86500; -71.21444
Built 1676
Architectural style The rock is large and shaped like a dull dager
MPS Rehoboth MRA
NRHP Reference #

83000619

[1]
Added to NRHP June 6, 1983
Sign at Anawan Rock Historic Site

Anawan Rock is a colonial historic site in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. It is a large dome of conglomerate rock (puddingstone) located off Winthrop Street (U.S. Route 44) in a wooded site reached by a short footpath. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

History

On August 28, 1676, Captain Benjamin Church and his group of colonial soldiers captured Anawan, the War Chief of the Pocasset People. He was an old man at the time, 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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ taken from sign at historic site
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