Indian Village Pakachoag

1630 - 1930

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.

Marker is at the intersection ...

The Wading Place

1630 - 1930

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 ...

Wheeler’s Surprise

1630 – 1930

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. ...

Site of the Camp of Gen. Joaquin Ramirez y Sesma

Site of the Camp, March 20-26, 1836, of one division of General Santa Anna's Army under the command of General Joaquin Ramirez y Sesma. It crossed the Colorado at Atascosita Ford, eight miles below Columbus.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

August Wilhelm Knispel

For over 40 years August Knispel, lifelong Franklin resident and farmer, served the Township, Hunterdon County and his dairy profession in positions of leadership. From 1964-97, he sat on Franklin's Township Committee and was Mayor eleven times. In 2002 he ...

Captain Richard Beers

1630 - 1930

Grave of Captain Richard Beers, killed by Indians on September 4, 1675. His monument is on the mountain-side above.

Marker is on Miller Falls Road (Massachusetts Route 63) just from S. Mountain Road, on the right when traveling north. ...

King Philip's Hill

1630 - 1930

Philip, second son and successor of Massasoit, Sachem of the Wampanoag, camped on this hill during the winter of 1675-6. The stump of a large look-out tree together with defence trenches are to be seen on top.

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Spring Hill Methodist Church

According to tradition, Methodists worshiped here under a brush arbor as early as 1800. On August 2, 1814, Phillip Keller deeded one acre for a Methodist Church and burying ground. Eden and Rebecca Green Thrower deeded an additional acre in ...

"The People were over"

Moving the thousand's of people and about 5,000 horses and 500 wagons across the Tennessee River at Blythe's Ferry proved slow. Some crossings took as long as three days.

"I reached Blythe's ferry on Sunday evening last, and found the great ...

John Paul Jones Memorial

[North Face inscriptions - above and beneath Captain Jones' statue:]

John Paul Jones

1747-1792

First to compel foreign man-of-war to strike colors to the Stars and Stripes.

[South Face inscriptions - above and beneath a bas relief rendering of ...