Mosswetusset Hummock
Moswetuset Hummock is a Native American site and the original name of the tribe in the region named Massachusetts after them. The wooded hummock in Squantum, Massachusetts, is formally recognized as historic by descendants of the Ponkapoag people.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: historic hill in Squantum (Quincy), Massachusetts.
- Also known as: “Moswetuset Hummock” and “Moswetusett”
Photo: Edenaviv5, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Edenaviv5, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Squantum Point Park and Dorchester Shores Reservation.
Squantum Point Park
Park
Photo: Fullobeans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Squantum Point Park is a state-owned, public recreation area located on the Squantum peninsula of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. The park was created on the site of the former Squantum Naval Air Station, which is preserved in a 2,700-foot-long strip of runway, and the former dockworks of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation.
Dorchester Shores Reservation
Recreation area
Dorchester Shores Reservation has been used as a common name for several non-contiguous recreation areas along the extended mouth of the Neponset River at the seaboard edge of the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
North Quincy High School
School
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North Quincy High School is a public secondary school located in the North Quincy neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. The school serves grades 9 through 12 and has an enrollment of over 1,200 students.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Quincy and Neponset.
North Quincy
Suburb
North Quincy is a neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. It is separated from the city of Boston by the Neponset River, and borders the Quincy neighborhoods of Squantum, Montclair and Wollaston.
Neponset
Neighborhood
Photo: Boston City Archives, CC BY 2.0.
Neponset is a district in the southeastern corner of Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The Neponset Indians were the original inhabitants of this district and in 1646 John Eliot preached unsuccessfully to the Native American community in Lower Mills led by Sachem Cutshamekin before the tribe moved to Ponkapoag.
Fields Corner
Neighborhood
Fields Corner is a historic commercial district in Dorchester, the largest neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, United States founded in June 1630.
Mosswetusset Hummock
- Categories: protected area, locality, and landform
- Location: Norfolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.28947° or 42° 17′ 22″ northLongitude
-71.02162° or 71° 1′ 18″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Open location code
87JC7XQH+Q9OpenStreetMap ID
node 358275207OpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Japanese—“Mosswetusset Hummock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mosswetusset Hummock”
- Chinese: “莫斯韦图塞特小丘”
- Japanese: “モスウェタセット・ハンモック”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mosswetusset Hummock”. Photo: Inquietudeofcharacter, Public domain.