This page is curated by the BPS Nockum Hill Cultural Resource Management Committee.
The Committee’s mission and focus is the ongoing historical and archaeological research study of the site known as Lot 3A or Nockum Hill, a seventeenth-century Plymouth Colony frontier settlement, located within the Sowams Heritage Area.
Stephen Venuti, Committee Chair
To contact the Committee, email svenuti52@gmail.com
Click the links below to learn more.
A lecture titled - Lost & Found: Plymouth Colony's Frontier Settlement at Barrington's Nockum Hill 1667-1675, was presented in the Barrington Town Hall Council Chamber on June 15, 2026 to a packed audience of over 100 attendees.
Click here to see an 87-minute recording of the presentation.
Click this link to see the lecture slides (without audio) Lost & Found Lecture Slides-PDF
Click here for a link to the Sowams Heritage page coverage of the event.
Barrington Times, December 17th, 2025 edition includes two articles focusing on Nockum Hill: Barrington property identified as flashpoint for King Philip's War; and History of Nockum Hill was nearly lost to condominium development (both by Josh Bickford)
Nockum Hill and the First Battle of King Philip's War, June 24th, 1675, by Stephen Venuti
Nockum Hill, Oliver Cromwell, and the English Civil War, a Prelude to King Philip's War, by Stephen Venuti, with comments by Eric B. Schultz
TECHNICAL REPORT “A Place Called Nockum” and the Inception of King Philip’s War
Barrington, Rhode Island, Department of the Interior, National Park Service,
American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP)
(FY2021 Grant #P21AP10840), Ross K. Harper, et. al
