This site is built on native land.

The land where this town now resides was referred to as M’squompskut  (musqui-ompsk-ut) which is from an Eastern Algonquian language, meaning “at the red rocks.” Long before the Fish House was built in 1896, Swampscott was host to abundant, traditional fishing and hunting grounds, as well as the homes of Indigenous peoples. We acknowledge that every moment we live, work, play, pray, gather, and study in this town of Swampscott, we do so on the lands of Indigenous peoples who for millennia prior to European colonization called this place home, and are still here. 

Learn more about land acknowledgments from the Native Governance Center.