Massachusetts: Massachusetts Bay Colony—Tercentenary Commission Markers
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historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWW9_fort-gilbert_West-Brookfield-MA.html
Here stood Fort Gilbert, built about 1688 to protect the second settlement of Brookfield from Indian raids.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWA_chaubunagungamaug_Webster-MA.html
Site of Praying Indian town established by John Eliot and Daniel Gookin in 1674 and known as Chaubunagungamaug.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWB_old-maanexit-ford_Oxford-MA.html
From this ford branched trails to Woodstock, Brookfield and Sturbridge. This way ran the Post Route established in 1672 "to goe monthly" from New York to Boston. Here, June 5, 1676, Major Talcott's Connecticut troops passed to join the final campaign agains…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWC_the-johnson-massacre_Oxford-MA.html
John Johnson and three children were killed by Indians in his house on this spot August 25, 1696. His wife was saved by her brother.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWD_wheelers-surprise_New-Braintree-MA.html
One mile to the southwest, off the North Brookfield Road, Edward Hutchinson's company seeking a parley with the Nipmucs was ambushed by Indians August 2, 1675, and more than half were slain. Captain Hutchinson died from his wounds. Captain Thomas Wheeler wa…
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWE_huguenot-settlement_Oxford-MA.html
Up this road on Mayo's Hill, are the remains of a bastioned fort built by Huguenots driven from France by the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Their prosperous settlement was interrupted by Indian attacks in 1696, and finally abandoned in 1704.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWF_the-wading-place_Middleborough-MA.html
Site of the ford or wading place where the Indian trail from Plymouth to "Middleberry" (Middleborough) crossed the Nemasket River. When the town was established, 1669, its southern boundary was described as extending "Six mile from the wadeing place."
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWG_indian-village-pakachoag_Worcester-MA.html
One-half mile up Malvern Road is the Indian spring and the site of the Indian village Pakachoag, clear spring, one of the three Indian villages on Worcester ground. John Eliot preached here in 1674.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWH_jonas-rice_Worcester-MA.html
On the slope of the hill one-half mile west stood the house of Jonas Rice, the first permanent dwelling in Worcester, built in 1713. He served as schoolmaster and his son, Adonijah, was the first white child born in Worcester.
historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWWK_the-old-connecticut-path_Westborough-MA.html
An Indian trail before 1630 left the road here to go over Fay Mountain.