Seekonk Reporter Leslie Patterson writes about the Sowams Heritage Area

Writing in the January 2020 edition of the Seekonk Reporter, feature writer Leslie Patterson published an article about the Sowams Heritage Area project on page 46. In the article, she describes the goals of the project to help people explore the history of Sowams, the original homeland of the Pokanoket Tribe. She includes a link to a YouTube video of the presentation that Dr. Weed gave at the Rehoboth History Club held at the Blanding Library on December 17th. She goes on to list some of the places in Sowams with which she is familiar as well as some she didn’t know about. Patterson describes the website as “a treasure trove of information with many links to monuments and markers, historic houses and churches, burial grounds and aboriginal sites, as well as an interesting blog, interactive maps, videos and some self-guided tour brochures to download.” She ends the article with a recommendation to read Our Beloved Kin: A New History of the King Philip’s War by Lisa Brooks who describes many of the events that took place in Sowams between 1675 and 1676, some of which occurred in what is now East Providence, Seekonk and Rehoboth.

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