Southwest Corner of Stockade

Southwest Corner of Stockade, was twenty-eight feet South, from a point one hundred feet west, of this tablet. A blockhouse or fort, containing the royal flagstaff, stood in this angle of stockade, and was burned on night of massacre, Feb. 8-9, 1690. Seven persons were then killed, and six taken prisoners, near the corner of these streets. Centennial Tablet, March 16, 1898.

Marker can be reached from State Street, in the median.

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