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    Pequot museum team researching old battle sites

    Groton, Connecticut (AP)

    An area where hundreds of Pequots died in a bloody massacre by colonial settlers and other American Indians in 1637 is being eyed as a possible National Battlefield site.

    The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center is researching land there and elsewhere in Connecticut in hopes of having the area included in the federal list of such sites.

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