The Little Pootatuck Brook Archeological Site is a prehistoric/historic archaeological site in Southbury, Connecticut. Located near the banks of the

Housatonic River The Housatonic River ( ) is a river, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 in western Massachusetts and western Connecticut in the United S ...

, the site is believed to represent one of the last habitation sites of the

Pootatuck The Potatuck were a Native American tribe in Connecticut. They were related to the Paugussett people, historically located during and prior to the colonial era in western Connecticut. They lived in what is now Newtown, Woodbury and Southbury o ...

tribe before its surviving members merged with the Schaghticoke people in the 18th century. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The site is located on land that is now owned by a local conservation land trust. The site is part of a larger parcel of land purchased in 1753 from the Pootatuck by Eleazer Mitchell. Mitchell built his house nearby (of which only foundational remnants remain) and his family have farmed at least some of the land into the 21st century. The native village site includes a burial ground that is believed to contain the remains of the last Pootatuck sachem, Manquash.

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National Register of Historic Places in New Haven County, Connecticut Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Southbury, Connecticut {{Connecticut-NRHP-stub

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