Nomination for Moswetuset Hummock

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Form 10-300 (July 1969) PH0026352 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE H3 No uTN NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) Mass. COUNTY: Nor folk FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER DATE 70.7.20.0006 7/40 NAME C OMMON: Moswetuset Hummock AND/OR HISTORIC: 2 LOCATION STREET AND NUMBER: Squantum CITY OR TOWN: Quincy STATE Mass. 3. CLASSIFICATION CATEGORY (Check One) District Site CONG- DISTRICT: 11 Street about1,000 feet northeast of the intersection of Morrissey Blvd.

CODE 025 COUNTY: -Norfolk CODE 021 OWNERSHIP STATUS Building Structure Object * Public Private Both Public Acquisition: - In Process Being Considered Occupied Unoccupied - Preservation work in progress ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC Yes: Restricted Unrestricted L No PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Agricultural Government Commercial Industrial Educational Military Entertainment Museum Park Private Residence Religious Scientific Hansportgt aner (spocte))5 OWNER OF PROPERTY OWNER'S NAME: STREET AND NUMBER: Sepinedlen of Maesachwette NetropaLitani bilgiek, dongfe tazky 20 Somerset Street CITY OR TOWN: Boston STATE: Mass. ton16 LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Office of the Treasurer STREET AND NUMBER: - Comments Mass - STATE: CODE 025 Norfolk COUNTY: CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Boston Mass.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TITLE OF SURVEY: Inventory of the historic assets of the Commonwealth 025 DATE OF SURVEY: 1963ff - Federal / State County DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: Massachusetts Histotical Commission, Office of the Secretary STREET AND NUMBÉR: Local 20.0006 ENTRY NUMBER State House CITY OR TOWN: Boston STATE: Mass. FOR NPS USE ONLY CODE 025 DATE DESCRIPTION Excellent CONDITION -Good (Check One) L Fair (Check One) Deteriorated Ruins - Unexposed (Check One) Altered Unaltered Moved Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

Srpp - Moswetuset Munnock is a promontory lying east of East Squantum Road in the northern part of Quincy. This arrow-shaped mound is approached from the road across a short and narrow neck. The Hummock is bounded by the waters of Quincy Bay, where the Indians fished, and salt marshes which afforded them orotection. The begetation on the two acre site remains much the smae as when the Indians occupied the Hummock in the early seventeenth century (and before). Four stone bounds are sunk along the north, east and south edges of the Hummock on the south side is a monument placed there by the Squantum Women's Club. and SEEINSTRUCTIONS RECÊIVED 197 NATIONAL REGISTE 9 U - un

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SIGNIFICANCE PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Pre-Columbian | - 15th Century 16th Century 17th Century 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century 'SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Abor iginal Education Prehistoric Engineering Historic Industry Agriculture Invention Architecture Landscape Art Architecture - Commerce Literature Communications Military Conservation Music Political Religion/Phi- losophy Science Sculpture Social/Human- itarian Theater Transportation Urban Planning Other (Specify) STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

Moswetuset Hummock is the only surviving memorial of the tribe of Indians from whom the Colony, Province and Commonwealth of Massachusetts derived their name; in the earlt 1600's, this small hill was the chief seat of Chicatabot, the Sachem of the Massachusetts Indians. Further Moswetuset Hummock is one of the few important Indian sites in New England that has re- mained unchanged since it was occupied by the Indians. The purely rustic form of the Hummock has not been altered by modern improvement. It is still bounded by the sea where the Indians fished, the marshes that protected them from their enemies and the original planting grounds of the tribe on land to the west. Neal's History of New England, published in 1747, explains the origin oi the name Massachusetts.

"The Sachem or Sagamore who governed the Indians in this part of the country when the English came hither, had his seat on a small hill, or hümmock, containing perhaps an acre and a half, about two leagues to the southward of Boston, which hill or hummock lies in the shape of an Indian's arrowhead, which arrow-heads are called in their language MOS, or MONS, with O nasal, and hill in their language is WETUSET; hence, this great Scahem's seat was called Moswetuset, which signifies a hill in the shape of an arrow's head, and his subjects, the Mos- wetuset Indians, form whence with a small variation of the word, the Province received the name MASSACHUSETTS." 112 RECEiVED NATIONAL REGISTER I9T 10.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Massachusetts Archaeological Society, "Reflections Upon the Past and Present of the Massachusetts Indians", Bulletin, Vol 4, #3. Speck, "Territorial Subdividions and Boundaries of the Wampanoag, Massa- chusetts and Nauset Indians" Museum of American Indians, N.Y., 1928, Monograph No. 44. Neal, Daniel, The History of New England, London, 1747. Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society Comm.,History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Boston: Ebenezer Clapp, Jr., 1859.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY CORNER LATITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds R NW LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING THE CENTER POINT OF A PROPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds 17- 22 71 ° 01' 20 " 42 NE SE " " SW APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: under 2 ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES STATE: CODE COUNTY CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE STATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE FORM PREPARED BY NAME AND TITLE: Richard w. Hale, Jr., Acting Chairman ORGANIZATION Massachusetts Historical Commission DATE April 22, 1971 STREET AND NUMBER: Office of the Secretary, State House CITY BEStON STATE Mass.

CODE 025 STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forthby the National Park Service. The recommended level of significance of this nomination is: I hereby certify that this property is included in the Nationa 1 Register. muit a canually Chief, Office of Archeology and HistoridPreservation OCT 7 1971 Name Jol. FXVonore Date ATTEST: Title Date 2> April 1971 Date Vallun Keeper of The Na ional Register suulay SEP 29 1971 19 333380 46 836' UTMReF C QuIncy Moswetusel Hummock E Squantum st.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) STATE MasS - COUNTY Norfolk FOR NPS USE ON ENTRY NUMBER 107.20.0006 NAME COMMON: Moswetuset Hummock AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: Squantum St. about 1,000 feet wortheast of the intersec Morrissey Blvd. CITY OR TOWN: Quincy STATE: Mass. CODE 025 COUNTY: Norfolk PHOTO REFERENCE PHOTO CREDIT: Massachusetts Historical Commission DATE OF PHOTO: April 1971 NEGATIVE Massachusetts Historical Commission RECÊIVED ch IDENTIFICATION DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

View from East Sgantum Street, showing monument NATIONAL REGISTER TEnaT HilL Malibu - Beach orner NEWHAVEN ) Hines BLVO Commercial Pt Mud SquantumANair Pt Old Colon - Yacht Club TORF SUFFÖLK Tenean Beach 8 :Port Nor Neponse Drive-in/ ER o Thimble Island Halftide Rock 2 Squaw Rock Mud NINFAOS K: 42:12A0% 71° 01' 20% Mud QUINCY Moswetuset Hummock U..S.G.S. BOSTON SOUTH, MASS. Scale: 1:24,000 1956 BOSTON CITY BL. QUINCY CITY BDY Chapel Rocks USMIL RES BELLEVUE Tidal Fiats Squantum t. 10 17'30" SET SETNud RWER RESERVATION os PPROXBDY THG7 my Unquity Brobk stAgatras Scha BastMiltony - High Sch7 20 QUINCE Ardrews Paygrouna Belcher achtro 2'30!! Crán Fretd Forbe West Quincy O'Rourk Furnace 37 -BM *SOUTH BRAINTREE 4.1 MI 11 MI. TO MASS. 28 Wallastank Saldfess Memno Brook * Furnace Brook Seh. 17 ADAMS -:00 PARK MERRYMOUNT -Pine 4681000m.N.

MIL SOUTHERI 8M BM rirmorr 20 Jr High -Sch High Sch Quincy Quincy ienter INTERIOR-GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Presidents Hur.1 WASHINGTON M R-0822 334000m.E. Mt Wollaston Cem WEYMOUTH 3.5 MI. PLYMOUTH 29 MI. piay Cround MI. TO MASS. 3 42°15 71°00 'Form 10-301 (Dec. 1968) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES PROPERTY MAP FORM (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with map) STATE Mass. COUNTY Norfolk FOR NPS USE ONLY Y NUMBER 70.1.20,0006 TRUCTIONS NS - HT/40 NAME COMMON: Moswetuset Hummock AND/OR HISTORIC: LOCATION STREET AND NUM Bg? Sqantum St. about 1,000 feet northeast of the intersection of Morrissey Blvd. CITY OR TOWN: Quincy STATE: Mass- MAP REFERENCE SOURCE: CODE 025 COUNTY: Norfolk U.S.G.S. Boston, South SCALE: 1:24,000 DATE: 1956 REQUIREMENTS TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS 1. Property broundaries where required. 2.

North arrow. 3. Latitude and longitude reference. .12 RECEVED MAY 5 1971 NATIONAL REGISTER OTIETTT 19 CODE 02 SKA TIERIAN John T. X. Daroren Pecretary of the Commonwealh The Commonwealih of Massachusetts Office of che bondany Fed. Reg. Prate Hlouse, Boston 02133 June 4, 1970 Dr. William Murtagh Keeper of the National Register Depariment of the Interior 801 19th Street NV Washington, D.C. 20006 RECENED JUN 11 1970 NATIONAL REGISTER Dear Dr. Murtagh: In Massachusetts ve wish to avail ourselves of pre-subnission of state-owned properties for the fegister. These four properties have been passed on by the Massachusetts Historical Conmission at their March 17 meeting. (60) 70.7.20.0004 1. Quincy Homestead, 34 Butler Road, Quincy, Norfolk County, which is already a state landmark 20.7.20.000 5 Water Street, Plynouth, Plymouth County.

This is already part of the Cole's Hill National Landmark, should, for obvious reasons be separately listed in the legister. Then come two properties which are not located by streets, but which can be located by latitude and Iongitude. 70.7.00.0000 57 20 %, Kesvetusset Humnock, uins orto wi Coun wad aeange in speliing, gave the Commonwealth itsnaine. eet naitheast of intesetin inith 71 06 42 W., is famous for its mysterious inscriptions ever since Bayview ave. in Palmile ivest o These sites are in the following Congressmens' districts: 1, Quincy- Representative James 4. Burke 2, Plymouth-Representative Hastings Keith 3, Quincy--Representative Burke 4, Dighton--Representative Margaret Heckler (prar) FNH/s Yours sincerey Richard lichad l tte aiman Hale, Accing Massachusetts Historical Commission 3 JUL 6 1970 Hon. John P. X.

Devoren Secretary or the ConsoneaIth Chadzwen Masaonusetos masgorieal Coapteolo soscon, 02233 Dear Mre Devoreat We aze pleased to infor you that the hiatorio properttes liated on the enelocure have been plaged oa the lationnl Regioter ol ilotorlo Places. Senatora Edvarl Me Kennedy end Edaond W. Brooke and the eppropriste Representatives have alno been notllled. Plesoe with- hold any publleity on thia watil you have received a carbon copy of the Concrescional correspondence. Sincezely yours, Sgud Tameat Allen Connally Citet, Oftice or Archeology ond Ietorie Freservation JUL 1 1970 Eoeloste Entered In the lattonol Regiuter CC: HR Rdemble trm 6/26/70 BASIC FILE RETALIED IN HR Propertleo elded to the Iational fegister of Ilatorieal Plsces MASSACHUSERTS Quincy Homestead Plymouth Rock .

Mosuetusset Ilunmock Digaton Rocl Hozlolk, County, Messnchuetts Plywouth Courty, Massochusetta Norfolk County, Mecsachusetto irletol County, Noosnchucetts ec: LL.-Mr. Melvin 6/25/70 RGamble mam ane of Beg ngton, 1 vel JUL 14 1970 Deng itre Baries ae pilessed to infors you thnt the htstorteproperitea 2tated on She enclonure have been no etnsted by the Soate Ilason ofcicer appodetedby the Guvermor for the Sag Seseatation of the litdoned Ilabonte Preservotion Progren In Mses omisette and lave becn entered into tie Mational Begiter of Itoborte Ploces: Degatora Bôvand Ne mnody d Ne Javoie bave aleo been proviied wisa tado tatometdon. Iy copr ot tade letter, the state Taadaon oetteers Ion. Joha 1. I. Devoren, Decretary at the Conconventtà, Ghedrunn, achmetts Itotorteet Coustasson, Boaton, Massacbusetta 02233, haa Iiheutae beea notarted. A lentlet explntatas te stional legteter io

Btneerely yous, (SGD) GEORGE B. HARTZOG, JR. Diaeoton anetosures tatered in the latioanl Regtaber JUL 1 1970 CC: Hon. John I. X. Dsvoren, Secrebnry of' the Connonrenithy Chatauen, Mesenchuetts Ilotarien1 Comnisston, Boston, Mesaschuetts 02133 Director, Northeast Region Properties added to the National Register of Historieal Places MASSACHUSERTS Quiney Homestead Moswetusset Hunnock - orfolk County, Messechusetts orfolk County, Messachusetts SYB LIBER John T. X. Daroron Pecretary of the Commorrecalih The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Seorebary - Prate Hlouse, Bosion 02133 July 16, 1970 Miss Elizabeth Dipple Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation National Park Service Department of the Interior 801 19th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C., 20006 Dear Miss Dipple: This is to confirm the data I telephoned to you.

Moswetusset Hummock's address is Squantum Street, Quincy, about 1000 feet northeast of, its intersection with Mor- rissey Boulevard. Dighton Rock: . Dighton Rock State Park, Berkeley, one mile west of Bay View Avenue. Also enclosed is a photocopy of the clipping from the Worcester Telegram about Elm Park, about which I spoke to you. It reached me by chance from friends in Worcester. Thank you for your help on this. Sincerely Qukadw kec! Richard W. Hale Jr. Acting Chairman Massachusetts Historical Commission Enclosure RWH/st U-CHIACIDA JEre LINERAD John T. X. Davoren Secretury of the Commonwealk The Commoncalih of Massachusetts Office of the Secretary Puate House, Boston 02133 April 2g, 1971 The Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation National Park Service 801 19th Street, N.w. Washington, D. C. 20006 Attention: Mrs.

Sally Marusin REGISTERED MAIL Dear Sirs, Enclosed are National Register submissions for: Fort Independence, Boston Moswetuset Hummock, Quincy Rogerson's Village, Uxbridge (North) Crown and Eagle Mills, Uxbridge (North) state-owned properties 12! RECEIVED MAY 5 1971 NATIONAL REGISTER ZI T9 These have been declared eligible for submission by the Kassachusetts Historical Commission, the State Review Board, and have been signed by Secretary of the Commonwealth, John F. X. Davoren, Chairman, Massachusetts Historical Commission and designated the State Liaison Officer. Sincerely yours, Qihnid W. Hale fu Richard W. Hale, Jr. Acting Chairman RWH: aw Massachusetts Historical Commission