Wessagussett Memorial Garden is a 4.5-acre park on Sea Street with winding trails, benches and granite plaques. In 1622, London entrepreneur Thomas Weston planned the colony on the Fore River, which the Indians called Wessagusset. His idea was to make money on beaver skins, fish and timber. The settlement was short-lived. It was 1623 when English settlers engaged in a bloody battle with American Indians in North Weymouth by the Fore River, an event now remembered as the Wessagusset Massacre. “On October 21, 2001 these puddingstone memorials were dedicated as symbols of hope that the souls of the first inhabitants of Wessagusett, the Massachusetts Indians, and the first settlers of Weymouth, the Weston Colonists, have reconciled their differences and found peace.” The community garden, called the Wessagusset Peace Garden, features corn, squash, pumpkins and sunflowers - plants that were once harvested by Indians who lived in the area.
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