Cautantowwits Indian Lot
Also known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Jamestown #14
Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
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Jamestown, Rhode Island 02835 United StatesCoordinates: 41.49869, -71.38008 - rihistoriccemeteries.org/newsearchcemeterydetail.aspx?ceme_no=JM014
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Add PhotosThis is a Narragansett Indian burial ground that was accidentally discovered in 1936. It was systematically excavated in 1966 and 1967 and the subject of a 1970 book "Cautantowwit's House, an Indian Burial Ground on the Island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay" by William Scranton Simmons. It is on the grounds of the Jamestown Lawn School. It is 240 ft. north of Watson Ave and 240 ft. east of Melrose Ave.
This is a Narragansett Indian burial ground that was accidentally discovered in 1936. It was systematically excavated in 1966 and 1967 and the subject of a 1970 book "Cautantowwit's House, an Indian Burial Ground on the Island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay" by William Scranton Simmons. It is on the grounds of the Jamestown Lawn School. It is 240 ft. north of Watson Ave and 240 ft. east of Melrose Ave.
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Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
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Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
- Total memorials4
- Percent photographed0%
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- Added: 4 Aug 2019
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2689612
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