Plymouth Rock, located on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Massachusetts, is reputed to be the very spot where William Bradford, an early governor of Plymouth colony, and other Pilgrims first set ...

Never a very large rock, the thing is today about one-third ... “If you walked into either the Plymouth colony or a Wampanoag village during the 1600s, the first thing you’d see at the ...

Plymouth Rock, with its etching of "1620," is inside a portico on the town's waterfront near the replica of the Mayflower. Longtime, though not historically accurate, lore would have us believe ...

William Bradford and Edward Winslow, who wrote first-hand accounts of the Mayflower landing and the establishment of Plymouth Colony, make no mention of a landing on a rock. Neither does Nathanial ...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Plymouth is most famous for a rock — Plymouth Rock. Plymouth, where the Mayflower pilgrims disembarked and began Plymouth Colony in 1620 ...

Leaving aside the question of which rock was the actual one–or even ... English but catastrophic for the native population. Plymouth Colony saw close to 8 percent of its men killed.

The now iconic piece of granite — subsequently named Plymouth Rock — that is said to have ... public attention in 1741 when residents of the colony planned to build a wharf right over it.

Plymouth Rock is the fabled location where William Bradford, a Pilgrim who would later become governor of Plymouth Colony, first set foot on North America. (Even that account isn’t accurate ...

Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts ... The Pilgrims then founded the Plymouth Colony. Plymouth Town Manager Melissa Arrighi decried the vandalism of the town’s historic monuments.

Productivity increased, and the colony began to prosper ... It’s too bad the failed socialist experiment at Plymouth Rock is not more prominently included in the Thanksgiving story.

It reads: Popham Rock 1607. A play on Plymouth Rock 1620, some 200 miles south? Not entirely. A colony called Popham actually did precede the renowned Massachusetts settlement. "Popham was the ...