Anawan Rock


Anawan Rock is a colonial historic site in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. It is a large dome of conglomerate rock located off Winthrop Street in a wooded site reached by a short footpath. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

History

On August 28, 1676, Captain Benjamin Church and his group of colonial soldiers captured Anawan, the War Chief of the Pocasset People. He was an old man at the time, and a chief captain of Metacomet, who had been captured and killed by the colonists two weeks earlier. The capture of Anawan marked the final event in King Philip's War.