Place 52: Blood-oath riverbank
August 1958The children emerge from a pumping cylinder, gather at the river and later climb to Kansas Street. Exact identity of the exit and the oath bank is not fixed. The marker represents a plausible nearby stretch.
About Blood-oath riverbank
The blood-oath riverbank represents the stretch where the children gather after emerging from Derry’s underground system in August 1958. Their exit brings them unexpectedly to the Old Cape side of the Kenduskeag; after the oath, their route eventually climbs back toward Kansas Street. The place is therefore both a riverside scene and a transition between two sides of the Barrens. The marker covers the nearby bank as a whole rather than claiming a particular stone, tree or patch of ground.
Why this pin is marked B
Inferred. Worked out from routes, distances and what stands next to it.
This site is level B because the Old Cape bank, the pumping-cylinder exit, the river gathering and the later ascent to Kansas Street establish a coherent local sequence. The account does not explain exactly where the underground route crosses the river or which cylinder opens onto this bank. The plotted stretch is a plausible reconciliation of those movements. Its exact coordinate, distance from the exit and path up to Kansas Street remain uncertain and are not separately documented.
