4 Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence Sowams Woods features 800 feet of frontage 9Hugh Cole Well, Warren on Echo Lake and is located north of the Big Plymouth colonist Hugh Little Neck Cemetery Mussachuck Creek off of . If Cole dug a well for his lies at the north end of approaching by car, park on Tallwood Drive, farmhouse in 1667 after his Bullock Cove in River- Spinnaker Drive or Lighthouse Lane. first house was burned in side and contains the the King Philip War. The graves of John Brown, 7 Hampden Meadows, Barrington well, along with interpretive Jr. who purchased The land between the signs, can be found along Wannamoisett from two branches of the the Kickemuit River in Warren at the back of Crab Massasoit in 1643; Elizabeth Tilley, a passenger Sowams River (now Pond between Child Street and the Broken Bridge. on the 1620 Mayflower voyage to Plymouth; and known as the Palmer 10 Captain Thomas Willett, who settled in Rehoboth and Barrington Burr’s Hill Burial Ground, Warren in 1643 and later served as the mayor of New York Rivers), was known Burr’s Hill across from City in 1665 and 1667. as Chachacust by the the Town Beach in War- 5 Pokanoket Tribe and New Meadow Neck by the ren was an aboriginal Nockum Hill Cemetery, Barrington burial ground that once Nockum Hill is the European settlers. It received this name as early as 1653. The appendage of “Hampden” to the contained dozens of site of the earliest grave sites of the people burial ground in Bar- New Meadow Neck name was given by the Historical Society in honor of John Hamp- who occupied the area in the 1600s. Used as a sand and rington, containing gravel source for a railroad that was constructed next to the graves of English den, the Plymouth colonist who visited Massassoit Osamequin along with Edward Winslow in 1623. the site in 1853, many graves were looted. In an effort to settlers from the 17th protect the artifacts in the remaining 42 graves, Charles Century who fought Travel by kayak 3/4 of a mile north of the Police Park boat ramp on the Barrington River to the west Carr exhumed the contents and donated them to muse- in the King Philip War. The cemetery was started ums in Providence, New York City, and Warren. in 1663 close to the nearby First Baptist Church. It end of Linden Road along New Meadow Road. Secure your kayak to one of the small trees on the . Following the passage of the Native American can be reached by kayak from the east end of the Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990, the channel just above the Tongue. A path leads from shore. The Greenbelt Trail begins just past the curve 1/4 of a mile up Linden Road and runs half a mile Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council retrieved the the Cemetery to Warren Avenue. A short walk to artifacts and reburied them at the site in Burr’s Hill the north leads to George Street where a marker north to the Kent Street Skating Pond which func- tions during the summer as a long-hydroperiod ver- Park in May, 2017. for the Church site and the entrance to the Doug 11 Rayner Wildlife Sanctuary can be found. nal pool. The Trail is open daily from dawn to dusk. Two17th Century houses, Bristol Two 17th century houses, 6 Sowams Woods, Barrington 8 Tyler Point Cemetery both privately owned, still The area around Tyler Point Cemetery stand at the north end of Sowams Woods is at the south end of Bristol Harbor. Nathaniel believed to be an area Tyler Point Road on Bosworth constructed set aside hundreds of the Warren River, was the first house in the years ago by the ab- established in 1702 town in 1680-81 original population for and named for Moses at 814 Hope Street using material shipped over women and for childbirth, a place of peace. Tyler, a Boston shipbuilder. It contains the earliest from England, Religious services for members In 2011, the Barrington Land Conservation graves in the town of Barriston, including those of of the First Congregational Church were held in Trust (BLCT) purchased the Sowams Woods, a 17th century colonists Hugh Cole and Rev. John the house until a meeting house was built on the pleasantly wooded property of 12 acres and home Myles whose Baptist meeting house stood there Town Common in 1684. Joseph Reynolds built the of the only nesting site in Rhode Island for the until 1700. It can be accessed by boat or kayak us- oldest three-story house in Rhode Island at 956 declining population of diamondback terrapins. ing the boat ramp on Tyler Point Road. Hope Street c. 1698-1700. any people think that the 17th century is gone in 4 Little Neck Cemetery 5 Nockum Hill 6 Sowams Woods 7 Hampden Meadows Greenbelt 2 India Point and Bold Point, Providence East Bay Rhode Island. No buildings from that M In 1680, Provi- time survive undisturbed, and much that was here has dence’s first wharf been transformed or covered over with new buildings. was erected near to- If you know where to look, however, you’ll find day’s Transit Street. evidence of that important time when this area was Originally called being settled by the English. Each location tells part Tockwotton by the of the story of what took place here 400 years ago. Pokanoket Tribe, the point along the became Locate the eleven places on the map in this known as India Point after John Brown began brochure, and then travel to each one by boat or to bring tea and spices from the East and West kayak to learn more about how this area started Indies. Bold Point sits across the Seekonk River and who was here at the time. in East Providence and has views of Upper Nar- Visit the www.SowamsHeritageArea.org web- ragansett Bay and the Seekonk River. Indigenous site and find over fifty locations on-line that are people used the shallow water by the Point as a part of the story of what happened in East Bay RI ford across the Seekonk River. Either side can and nearby Massachusetts in the 17th century. be approached by boat or kayak. There is a boat ramp close to Bold Point where one can put in. Support for this project was provided by the Rhode Island Council for the Human- ities, an independent state affiliate of the 3 National Endowment for the Humanities. Slate Rock Park, Providence Slate Rock Park at 1 Weybosset Bridge & the Cove, Providence Gano and Williams Weybosset in the Streets on the East Narragansett Side is named after Indian language the ledge where Roger meant, “crossing Williams and a hand- place,” a narrow, ful of his followers shallow place on are said to have first stepped ashore after crossing the river that In- from their original settlement on Omega Pond dians used to walk across the Seekonk River in the spring of 1636. from one side of Narragansett Bay to the other, When they arrived, they had the good fortune presumably during low to mid-tides. Weybosset to be met on a large slate rock by a number of is just south of the convergence of two rivers, friendly Narragansett Indians, one of whom theWoonasquatucket and Moshassuck, flowing greeted them with the phrase “What cheer, south into the , at the upper end netop?” a mixture of English and Narragansett. of Narragansett Bay. Today, a new bridge lies at The Indians directed the group to continue the bottom of College Street down the river, around the point to the west, and The Bridge can be approached by kayak or boat up a small river to a cove where they established a by traveling up the Providence River to Memo- settlement that would become Providence. rial Park to a dock. Interpretive signs are at Slate Rock Park can be found by walking up either end of the bridge, and the Roger Williams Power Street from the west shore of the Seekonk Memorial is four blocks to the north. River just south of the old railroad bridge. 8Tyler Point Cemetery 9Burr’s Hill Burial Ground 10Hugh Cole Well11Bristol’s 17th Century Houses