4 Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence 6 Hampden Meadows Greenbelt 8 Burr’s Hill Burial Ground Little Neck Cemetery The land between the Burr’s Hill on the Bike at the south end of two branches of the Path across from the Read Street below Allen Sowams River (now Town Beach in Warren, Avenue in Riverside known as the Palmer RI, was an aboriginal contains the graves of and Barrington riv- burial ground that once John Brown, Jr. who pur- ers), was known as contained dozens of chased Wannamoisett Chachacust by the grave sites of the people from Massasoit in 1643; Pokanoket Tribe and New Meadow Neck by the who occupied the area in the 1600s. Elizabeth Tilley, a passenger on the 1620 May- European settlers. Used as a sand and gravel source for a railroad flower voyage to Plymouth; and Captain Thomas This latter name it received as early as 1653. The that was constructed next to the site in 1853, Willett, who settled in Rehoboth in 1643 and later appendage of “Hampden” to the New Meadow many graves were looted. In an effort to protect served as the mayor of New York City in 1665 and Neck area was given by the Rhode Island His- the remaining 42 graves, librarian and amateur 1667. torical society, in honor of John Hampden, who archaeologist Charles Carr exhumed the contents Elizabeth Tilley Howland (c. Aug 1607 – visited Massassoit with Edward Winslow in 1623. and donated them to museums in Providence, December 21, 1687) participated in the first The main trail begins on Linden Road off of New York City, and Warren. Thanksgiving in Plymouth and was present at the New Meadow Road from the East Bay Bike Path Following the passage of the Native American first meeting between the Pilgrims and the Poka- and runs half a mile north to the Kent Street Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990, noket Tribe, later known as the First Encounter. Skating Pond which functions during the sum- the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council re- She was one of the few original Pilgrims to live to mer as a long-hydroperiod vernal pool. The Trail trieved the artifacts and reburied them at the site see King Philip’s War. She died in Swansea. is open dailly from dawn to dusk. in Burr’s Hill Park in May, 2017.

5 Sowams Woods, Barrington 7 Tyler Point Cemetery 9 Bristol’s 17th Century houses The area around In 1680, following the Two 17th century Sowams Woods is be- King Philip War, a houses, both pri- lieved to be an area set meetinghouse’s loca- vately owned, still aside hundreds of years tion was changed from stand close to the ago by the indigenous Nockum Hill to what end of the East Bay population for women was then called “a place Bike Path in Bristol, and for childbirth, a place of peace. of trade” and is today Rhode Island. In 2011, the Barrington Land Conservation called Tyler Point on New Meadow Neck. The Joseph Reynolds house at 956 Hope Street is Trust purchased the Sowams Woods, a pleasantly A cemetery, now at the end of Tyler Point Road, the oldest three-story house in Rhode Island. It was wooded property of 12 acres and home of the was established in 1702 adjacent to this second built by Joseph on land his father, Nathaniel Reyn- only nesting site in Rhode Island for the declin- Baptist meetinghouse, led by Rev. John Myles. olds, a leather worker from Boston, had bought in ing population of diamondback terrapins. The center of settlement shifted easterly to Brooks 1684, It is a full three-story house, unusually large Sowams Woods features 800 feet of frontage on Pasture, platted in 1682, that became the Town of for its time. Echo Lake and is located near the PIC-WILL Na- Warren in 1747. Moses Tyler, a Boston shipbuild- Deacon Nathaniel Bosworth constructed the ture Preserve, Big Mussachuck Creek salt marsh er, inherited the eastern shore of the point from first house in the town in 1680-81 at 814 Hope and Narragansett Bay. his father-in-law, Edward Luther, in the 1750s and Street using material shipped over from Eng- If approaching by car, park on Tallwood Drive, developed a shipyard, giving Tyler Point its name. land. It began as a typical two-room, two-story Spinnaker Drive or Lighthouse Lane. On bicycle, It is easily accessed from the Bike Path by taking house Religious services for members of the First use the East Bay Bicycle Path. Tyler Point Road from County Road, Route 103, Congregational Church were held in the house between the Warren and Barrington bridges. shortly after it was built in Bristol. any people think that the 17th century is gone 4 Little Neck Cemetery 5 Sowams Woods 6 Hampden Meadows Greenbelt 2 Bold Point, East Providence in East Bay Rhode Island. No buildings from M Bold Point sits across that time survive undisturbed, and much that was the Seekonk River in here has been transformed or covered over with new East Providence and buildings. has views of Upper If you know where to look, however, you’ll find Narragansett Bay and evidence of that important time when this area the Seekonk River. was being settled by the English. Each location Aboriginal people tells part of the story of what took place here 400 used the shallow water years ago. by the Point as a ford across the Seekonk River. India Point, located on the other side of the Locate the nine places on the map in this bro- river, was Providence’s first port. It remained chure, and then travel to each one on the East active from 1680 until the Great Depression. Bay Bike Path to learn more about how this area Its success was in part due to the large trading started and who was here at the time. businesses of John Brown and his partner, John Visit the www.SowamsHeritageArea.org web- Francis, with both the East and West Indies. site and find over fifty locations on-line that are Bold Point is now a public park owned by the part of the story of what happened in East Bay RI City of East Providence and is the state’s larg- and nearby Massachusetts in the 17th century. est outdoor concert venue, with the capacity for about 4,000 attendees. Support for this project was provided by the Rhode Island Council for the Human- ities, an independent state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 3 Wannamoisett Marker 1 This granite marker India Point Park, Providence sits in the sidewalk In 1680, Provi- next to the Silver dence’s first wharf Spring Golf Course on was erected near Pawtucket Avenue in today’s Transit East Providence. Street. One side marks Originally called the original bound- Tockwotton by the ary between the the town of Rehoboth and the aboriginal tribes, the point along the Seekonk Wannamoisett section of the Pokanoket Tribe’s River became known as India Point after John “Sowams” land in 1620. The other side marks the Brown began to bring tea and spices from the town line. This purchase by John Browne from East and West Indies. India Point Park replaced the Massasoit Osamequin in 1643 was the first of the wharf after Route 195 was constructed. a series of purchases from the Pokanoket Tribe During the 18th century, Providence was that occurred over the next 25 years. transformed from a rural hamlet into a sea- From the East Bay Bike Path, take Fuller Avenue port, trading with other colonies, the West east to Pawtucket Avenue and head north for a few Indies, Africa, and England. India Point re- blocks. The marker is on the west side of Pawtucket mained an important trade center until the end Avenue at Wheeler Avenue. of the Great Depression. 7 Tyler Point Cemetery 8Burr’s Hill Burial Ground 9 Bristol’s 17th Century Homes The Silver Spring Golf Club is open to the public.