{"nrhp_refnum":"70000094","name":"Moswetuset Hummock","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Squantum St., near jct. with Morrissey Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Quincy","county":"Norfolk County","state":"MA","lat":42.289475966000055,"lon":-71.02047061999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-07-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Historic - Aboriginal","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-acre arrow-shaped promontory (hummock) in the northern part of Quincy, Massachusetts, on Squantum Street, bounded by Quincy Bay and salt marshes. It is a Native American site from the early seventeenth century and earlier.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the only surviving memorial of the tribe from which the Colony, Province and Commonwealth of Massachusetts took their name. In the early 1600s it was the chief seat of Chicatabot, Sachem of the Massachusetts Indians. It is also described as one of the few important Indian sites in New England that remains unchanged since Native occupation.","narrative":"Moswetuset Hummock is a small, arrow-shaped promontory of about two acres in the northern part of Quincy, reached from Squantum Street across a short, narrow neck. Quincy Bay and salt marshes surround it, the waters where Native people fished and the marshes that sheltered them. In the early 1600s the hill was the chief seat of Chicatabot, Sachem of the Massachusetts Indians. Its name, recorded in Neal's History of New England of 1747, means a hill shaped like an arrowhead, and the tribe's name is the source of the name Massachusetts. The nomination describes it as the only surviving memorial of that tribe and as one of the few important Indian sites in New England left unchanged since Native occupation. The vegetation is described as much the same as in the seventeenth century. Four stone bounds mark its north, east and south edges, and a monument placed by the Squantum Women's Club stands on the south side. The state owns the site, which serves as a park.","period_of_significance":"17th Century","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked good and original site; the form states the vegetation remains much as it was when Native people occupied it. Owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and used as a park.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:53.1394-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/84/7961/63796184/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/70000094.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000094/0c8bf199a0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000094/0c8bf199a0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Edenaviv5","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norfolk_County_-_Moswetuset_Hummock_-_20231014112025.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Edenaviv5</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norfolk_County_-_Moswetuset_Hummock_-_20231014112025.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796184","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moswetuset_Hummock","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6917049"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/norfolk-county/moswetuset-hummock-70000094/"}