What is "waban"

Waban is a surface-level light rail station on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Green Line "D" Branch, located just south of Beacon Street at Waban Square in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts. The station is located below grade; access to both platforms is via Wyman Street on the outbound side of the tracks or a stairway from Beacon Street. Waban is not handicapped accessible, as the platforms have not been raised to interface with low-floor trams.

Waban (16041685) was a Native American of the Nipmuc group and was the first Native American to be converted to Christianity in Massachusetts.

Waban may refer to:

• Waban (ca. 1604-ca. 1685), the first Native American to convert to Christianity in Massachusetts
• Waban, Massachusetts, one of the 13 villages of Newton, Massachusetts
• Waban (MBTA station), a transit station in the Waban section of Newton, Massachusetts
• USS Waban (1880), a United States Navy steamer in commission from 1898 to 1919

• , a Design 1015 ship built for the United States Shipping Board in 1919