Pequot Fort

Pequot Fort
Location Groton, Connecticut
Area 3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built 1637
NRHP Reference # 89002294[1]
Added to NRHP January 19, 1990

Pequot Fort is the site of a former fortified village used by the Pequot tribe in present-day Groton, Connecticut during the 1637 Pequot War. Captain John Mason led 90 colonists and 100 Mohegan Indians who slaughtered 400 to 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Indian Tribe at the site in the Mystic massacre.[2][3][4]

The fort was located on top of Pequot Hill along Pequot Avenue just north of the village of West Mystic. In 1889 a statue of Major John Mason by sculptor James C.G. Hamilton was placed at the base of Pequot Hill near the site where the massacre occurred. The statue was moved to Windsor in 1992.[5]

The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ The Society of Colonial Wars: 1637 – The Pequot War.
  3. ↑ Newes from America Or, A New and Experimentall Discoverie of New England; Containing, A Trve Relation of Their War-like Proceedings These Two Yeares Last Past, with a Figure of the Indian Fort, or Palizado, by John Underhill Captain of Militia, Massachusetts Bay Colony Paul Royster , editor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  4. ↑ McCray, Ashley Nicole; Ware, Lawrence (November 26, 2015). Decolonizing the History of Thanksgiving. Counterpunch.org. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  5. ↑ Pelland, David. "John Mason Monument, Windsor". CT Monuments.net. Retrieved 4 October 2014.

Coordinates: 41°21′46″N 71°58′41″W / 41.3627°N 71.9780°W / 41.3627; -71.9780

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