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Welcome to the Oniset Wigwam

Wigwam Mission Statement
We Encourage and Teach Healing, Mediumship and Spiritual Unfoldment
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The On-I-Set Wigwam Co-Workers Spiritualist Camp is located at 9 Crescent Place in Onset Massachusetts has been offering services since 1894.
 
Sunday Services that include a spiritual healing, a lecture/sermon, and messages, are held from 10:30am to 12:00pm.  Mediumship classes and open galleries are offered in the evenings during the week.  Daytime activities offered include workshops, fire ceremonies, drum circles, potluck cookouts, and other special events, are on specified Saturdays and Sundays.
 
Services are centered around the Wigwam, an octagonal wooden edifice designed to resemble an Indian teepee.  It has been a historic landmark for more than a century.  The Wigwam is the oldest National Spiritualist Camp in the country to have religious services in this type of building.
 
Onset was settled in 1877 by Spiritualists who formed the Onset Bay Campmeeting Association.  The movement was developed in 1890 to bring the spirit of the American Indian to Onset Bay settlers.  At the first meeting of the temporary organization, it was voted to be called “The On-I-Set Wigwam Co-Workers Society” an honor dedicated to an Indian Chief elder from this area.
 
The On-I-Set Wigwam Co-Workers Society met as an incorporated society on October 25, 1893, and completed work on the Wigwam the following year.  The Wigwam is a Historical site rich in culture and history, with a healing Totem pole in the center that was dedicated on July 30, 1894. Then on July 30, 1994, the Wigwam was rededicated, and the pole resensitized during the centennial observance.