{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Anawan Rock | nrhp_type = | image = Anawan Rock 1.jpg | caption = | location = Rehoboth, Massachusetts | coordinates = {{coord|41|51|54|N|71|12|52|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Massachusetts#USA | area = | built = 1676 | architect = | architecture = Large rock shaped like a dull dagger | added = June 6, 1983 | mpsub = Rehoboth MRA | refnum = 83000619 <ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2008a}}</ref> }} thumb|Sign at Anawan Rock Historic Site
'''Anawan Rock''' is a colonial historic site in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. It is a large dome of conglomerate rock (puddingstone) located off Winthrop Street (U.S. Route 44) 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.<ref>taken from sign at historic site</ref> Although Church promised to spare Anawan's life upon his capture, he was ultimately executed by colonial officials.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sabin|first=Edwin L.|title=The Capture Of Old Chief Annawan (1676)|url=https://www.history1700s.com/index.php/articles/20-military-history/1680-the-capture-of-old-chief-annawan-1676.html|access-date=2021-11-21|website=18th Century History -- The Age of Reason and Change|language=en-gb}}</ref> Anawan Rock is one of the few physical sites from the war still intact.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Anawan Rock, Rehoboth – Sowams Heritage Area|url=https://sowamsheritagearea.org/wp/anawan-rock-rehoboth/|access-date=2021-11-21|language=en-US}}</ref>
==See also== *National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, Massachusetts
==References== {{Reflist}} {{commonscat|Anawan Rock}} ==External links== *[http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2010/09/spirits-of-anawan-rock.html The Spirit of Anawan Rock]
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Category:National Register of Historic Places in Bristol County, Massachusetts Category:Geography of Bristol County, Massachusetts Category:Rehoboth, Massachusetts Category:King Philip's War
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