Please post the attached clues to the Great Swamp Monument Letterbox in West
Kingston, RI.

GREAT SWAMP MONUMENT LETTERBOX
WEST KINGSTON, RHODE ISLAND

PLACED: January 11, 2002
By Kokopelli

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: Take Rt. 2 South into West Kingston. About 1 mile past
the junction of Rt. 138, look for the old white historical marker Great Swamp
Monument on the left, just past Liberty Lane. At the sign, take a left onto
Great Swamp Monument Drive (a bumpy dirty road) and drive to the end. Park
in the circular parking area.

CLUES: From the parking area follow the old road easterly out to the
monument, which is about a half-mile walk. The monument is placed at the
sight of the Great Swamp Massacre of Sunday, December 19, 1975. During King
Philips War the Narragansetts took refuge on this piece of high ground in the
swamp. They would have been well protected from their enemies but a cold
spell froze the waters of the swamp. The Colonist led by Benjamin Church,
marched across the ice and charged the encampment setting it on fire and
killing almost 1,000 Narragansetts, many of them women and children. The
monument is a huge granite monolith ringed by 4 granite stones representing
the colonial regiment.
Stand at the North side of the monolith. Walk 42 paces at 10 to reach a
small deer trail on your right. There is a white pine at 45 of great girth
about 15 feet from where you stand. Bushwhack in to unearth a slice of
history on the north side of the tree under a stone.