Click here for an interactive map of over 50 Sowams locations with links to their descriptive pages.

Many of the fifty locations in the Sowams Heritage Area can be seen on a variety of guided and self-guided tours.

Each reveals aspects of the life of those First People as well as the process by which English colonists moved into that area and displaced the aboriginal inhabitants in the 1600s.

Currently available guided tours:

1. 17th Century Providence 90-minute Guided Bus Tour

2. Sowams Heritage Area Guided 90-minute walking tour of 17th century Providence

3. 17th Century Bristol, Barrington and Warren two-hour Guided Bus Tour

4. 17th Century East Bay three-hour Guided Bus Tour

5. 17th Century Rehoboth, Massachusetts 90-minute Guided Bus Tour

6. Outbreak of King Philip’s War 4-Site Tour

E-Mail Sowams Heritage Area Project Coordinator David Weed at drweed@cox.net to arrange for a tour, described above and below, or to develop a new tour

Click here for a seven-page detailed description of available guided Sowams Heritage Area tours.

Click here for a three-page detailed description of 19 sites on a self-guided tour of key sites in Sowams.

Click here for a four-page description of four sites where King Philip’s War broke out in June, 1675.

Any of the following six Pocket Tour Guides can be printed on both sides of 8 1/2 X 11″ paper (set “fit to paper”) and folded to fit your pocket.

Click on any of the downloadable self-guided tour guides below for an 8 1/2 X 14″ page that can be printed on legal length paper.