Princess Wawaloam is Buried Where?

Princess Wawaloam is Buried Where?

Three memorials.

Wawaloam grave stone, 2006
Wawaloam School, 100 Victory Highway, Exeter. (January 28, 2006).

Our school has a unique name that comes from a Native American legend about Princess Wawaloam who is buried under the rock and the oak tree that stand at the southwest side of the school. When the school land was deeded to the town by the Metcalf family, Mrs. Metcalf requested that the large rock on the site never be moved. To this day the rock sits embedded firmly in the ground with the stately oak tree by its side.
—from the Wawaloam School website (2006).

Indian Rock 2020Cemetery,
Indian Rock Cemetery, 129 New London Turnpike, Exeter. (April 25, 2020).

In the late 1800s a farmer named William M. Bailey had this boulder on his farm inscribed to honor Wawaloam. While the site is listed as a cemetery in the Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Database, she's not buried here. The inscription reads: WAWALOAM, WIFE OF MIANTONOMI, 1661.

The Exeter Historical Association offers a short article about this monument here.

Aspanansuck Markers, 2020
Aspanansuck Markers, Dalmyra Kennels, 191 Ten Rod Road, Exeter. (February 22, 2020).

Wawaloam marker, 2020
Wawaloam Marker, Dalmyra Kennels, 191 Ten Rod Road, Exeter. (February 22, 2020).

The Aspanansuck Markers, commemorating Miantonomi and Wawaloam, and the village where they lived, were dedicated in 1923.

The Exeter Historical Association offers a short article about these markers here.

Last Edited
2023-08-03