{"nrhp_refnum":"83000619","name":"Anawan Rock","other_names":["Annawon Rock"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Anawan St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Rehoboth","county":"Bristol County","state":"MA","lat":41.86505269700007,"lon":-71.21402899499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Anawan Rock is a commemorative historic site on Anawan Street (Route 44) in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, set about 200 feet from the road in a rural, wooded area on less than one acre. It marks the location of a confrontation on August 28, 1676.","why_significant":"It is the site of one of the closing confrontations of King Philip's War and one of the few incidents whose exact location is known. Captain Benjamin Church surprised the chieftain Annawon here, and Annawon surrendered and gave Church Philip's regalia, which marked the end of Native American resistance in the region. The form states it meets criterion A.","narrative":"Anawan Rock is a wooded rural site on Anawan Street (Route 44) in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, about 200 feet from the road on less than one acre. It is used today as a commemorative site. The place is tied to a closing episode of King Philip's War (1675-1676). On August 28, 1676, after the death of King Philip in Rhode Island, Captain Benjamin Church and his company of colonists and Indians tracked down Annawon, one of Philip's two remaining chieftains. Church surprised Annawon and his men here, and they surrendered without resistance. Annawon handed over Philip's regalia as a sign of defeat. Church promised to spare his life, but Annawon was executed before Church returned to Plymouth. Church described the event and the location in a narrative first published in 1716 and reprinted many times. Because the exact location is known, the site is valued as the setting of a significant historical event that marked the end of Native American resistance in the region.","period_of_significance":"1676","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Present use is commemorative.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:11:56.102752-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/7897/63789779/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/83000619.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000619/91a2db9511-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83000619/91a2db9511-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anawan_Rock_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcbela (Marc N. Belanger)</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anawan_Rock_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63789779","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anawan_Rock","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4752418"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/bristol-county/anawan-rock-83000619/"}