Wannalancet

Wannalancet is a Massachusetts historical marker in Lowell, Middlesex County, dedicated 1930.

Pawtucket Boulevard at Vesper Country Club, Lowell · location approximate

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On Wickasee Island (now Tyng's Island) in the Merrimac dwelt Wannalancet, last sachem of the Pennacook Confederacy, and like his father Passaconaway, a faithful friend to the English.

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

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Historical maps covering this location

1891 · City of Lowell, Massachusetts. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1924 · Richards standard atlas of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1930 · Motor routes that intersect the Bay Circuit (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1931 · Lowell, Massachusetts (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1935 · Lowell, Massachusetts (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

City of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1891, covering the location of Wannalancet, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — City of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1891, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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

Wannalancet

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