Key to Historical Quaboag Map
Historical Sites
1. Site of siege - August 2-4, 1675
3. Whitefield Rock - 1740
4. Warding Rock - Sentinel post
5. Mile Square - Tract of 640 acres
6. The 800 Acres
7. Capt. Kellogg's 200 Acres
8. The Clay Pits
9. Owens Tavern - built in 1688
10. Gilbert's Fort - 1688
11. Site of First Schoolhouse - 1733
12. Old French Fort Site - 1745
13. Rich's Tavern Site - Hadley Path
14. Site of Second Parish (North Brookfield)
15. Site of Third Parish (Brookfield)
16. Site of First Parish (West Brookfield)
17. Locale of Spooner Murder - March 1, 1778
18. Site of First Schoolhouse in North Brookfield - 1759
19. Old Stone Bridge on Bay Path - 1673
20. Locale of Thomas McCluer Murder - 1741
21. "Smallpox Den" - cave in which a man named Allen convalesced
from smallpox - 1775
22. Isaiah Thomas Printing Office - 1710
23. Indian Rock - Seige of Brookfield, 1675, used by the Indians
24. Old Burying Ground - 1710
25. Old Tyler Burying Ground - 1777
26. Mark's Garrison
27. Jennings' Garrison (Tavern) - 1704, and Waite's Tavern - 1771-1800
28. Brookfield Town Pound
Historical Buildings
2. Banister Garrison (Tavern) - 1704
3. Goss' Garrison - 1704
4. Austin Phelps Birthplace - 1820, built 1782
5. Dwight Tavern - 1718
Historical Markers
1. Site of Indian Assault on Woolcott Family -
July 27, 1693
3. General Rufus Putnam Homesite - 1761
4. Franklin Milestones (Eight of these) - about 1765
5. Woolcott Homesite Marker - 1685-1800
6. First and Second Meeting House Marker
Indian Village Sites
1. Wickaboag
2. Quobagud
3. Rock House (probable winter quarters)
10. Council Grove
Mill Sites
2. Iron works - Jonathan and Nicholas Jenks -
1782
3. Saw and Grist Mills - Thomas Bartlett
4. Saw Mill - John Woolcott, 1718
5. Fulling Mill - John Patterson & William Hair - 1720
6. Fulling and Grist Mills - Roger Stevens
7. Grist Mill - Jeduthan Stevens
8. Saw Mill - John Hamilton, Jr. - 1725
9. Corn Mill - John Wolcott - before 1717
10. Saw Mill - William Ayres - 1762
11. Grist Mill - John Pynchon - about 1667
12. Saw Mill - Thomas Barnes & eight others - 1709
13. Fulling and Saw Mills - Nathaniel Wait - 1757
14. Saw Mill - Daniel Matthews Jr. - 1749
15. Blacksmith's forge and trip hammer (later Grist & Saw Mill) -
Pepper Family
16. Saw Mills - Tyler and Gilbert
17. Grist Mill - John Hayward, Jr. - 1708
18. Saw Mill - Jacob Kent
19. Saw Mill - Sylvester Thomas
20. Grist Mill - Jabez Upham - 1748
21. Grist Mill - Dean's Brook
22. Mill built by Elisha Rice before 1762
23. Mill by John Hinds, Jr., - 1738
Trails and Roads
Old Bay Path - Indian trail first used by white
man in 1648
New Bay Path - built in 1673
Boston Post Road - used by postriders before 1765 and by stagecoaches
starting June, 1772.