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Monument to Miantonomo

Norwich, CT

A stone monument marks the area traditionally associated with the 1643 killing of Narragansett sachem Miantonomo after his capture during conflict with the Mohegan. The isolated marker preserves a grim episode from southern New England's colonial and Indigenous history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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