Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . .IlOSriE is Watsons Hill, now cov-ered with houses. This was the Caniaiii^antrc^it of the Indians, one^^l^LM&^t^^ <jf their favorite resorts, where theyLJiy^^^^S^ had their summer camps, and on thele\el below planted their corn. It is famous as thescene of the treaty with Massasoit. (iov. Bradford. il Hill. Town Brook Watsons Hi THE TOWN FROM THE SOUTH. had a tract of land assii;ned him here on which toraise corn, and to this da\- portions of the hill remainin the Bradford name and others of direct descentfrom him. The Watch Tow
Guide to historic PlymouthLocalities and objects of interest . .IlOSriE is Watsons Hill, now cov-ered with houses. This was the Caniaiii^antrc^it of the Indians, one^^l^LM&^t^^ <jf their favorite resorts, where theyLJiy^^^^S^ had their summer camps, and on thele\el below planted their corn. It is famous as thescene of the treaty with Massasoit. (iov. Bradford. il Hill. Town Brook Watsons Hi THE TOWN FROM THE SOUTH. had a tract of land assii;ned him here on which toraise corn, and to this da\- portions of the hill remainin the Bradford name and others of direct descentfrom him. The Watch Tower* A little to the north of the site of the t)ld fortanother tablet marks the place of tlu brick watchtower erected in 164:;. The localitv of this tower is 58 indicated by four stone posts set in the groundto mark its corners. The brick foundation is stillthere, about a foot below the surface, and the oldhearthstone on which the Pilgrims built their watchfires still lies where they placed it, on the south-erly side of the enclosure. The location of the towerwas discovered several years ago in digging a grave,when the sexton came upon the foundation. The
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