Indian Reservation

Indian Reservation is a Massachusetts historical marker in Grafton, Worcester County, dedicated 1930.

Worcester County · dedicated 1930 · Brigham Hill Road off Route 122, Grafton · location approximate

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These four and one-half acres have never belonged to the white man, having been set aside in 1728 as an Indian Reservation by the forty proprietors who purchased the Praying Indian town of Hassanamesit.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

Indian Reservation

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