The Mashantucket Pequot Reservation Archeological District is a historic district in the northeast corner of the town of Ledyard, Connecticut that includes nearly 1,638 acres (6.63 km2) of archeologically sensitive land in the northern portion of the uplands historically called Wawarramoreke by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, and within territory first chronicled as Pequot land in the earliest known surviving map (1614) of the region. The district was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1993.
The historic district was earlier listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Mashantucket Pequot Reservation", with alternative name "Mashantucket Pequot Reservation-Archeological District", in 1986.
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