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Snakes As Wide As Stovepipes: A Legend In Born

Monday, October 15, 2012 14:22

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SNAKES AS WIDE AS STOVE-PIPES: A LEGEND IN BORN

Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) workers clear a swamp.

“Huge mystery snakes have been sighted before in the Hockomock region. In 1939, Roosevelt-era CCC workers, completing a project on King Philip’s Street at the edge of the swamp, reported seeing a huge snake as large around and black as a stove-pipe.’ The snake coiled for a moment, raised its spade-like head and disappeared into the swamp. Local legends claim that a huge snake appears every seven years.”
Loren Coleman, Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide To The Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures.

Almost every Bridgewater Triangle enthusiast knows this story. But there is much more too this particular one. What Coleman does not mention (perhaps he did not know at the time) is that the King Philip’s Street, located in Raynham, is home to the former summer camp of King Philip (hence the name of the street.)

In researching Fowling Pond recently, I was stunned when I figured out that Fowling Pond– a lake reported to have been a sizable body of water when it existed–was on a tract of land now known as Pine Swamp. THIS, not Hockomock Swamp–as legend has it–is the true location of the Civil Conservation Corps workers terrifying sighting in the 1939.

Fowling Pond, I learned (for more detailed information about the pond see my blog post on the Leonard Family) was a very sacred spot to the Wampanoag. “Occasionally one can still find traces of the Indian’s path along the banks of various and rivers and through the wooded section.” (Carolyn Owen, Fowling Pond, Old Colony Historical Society.

By 1800, Fowling Pond was gone, “Now it is a gone and the large tract it once covered is grown into a thickset swamp of cedar and pine.” It is interesting to explore the connection between the location of the workers sighting of the monster snake and what that area was: A place King Philip called his summer home.

2012-10-15 14:05:15

Source: http://www.thebridgewatertriangle.com/2012/10/snakes-as-wide-as-stovepipes-legend-in.html

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