Plymouth Rock is a boulder in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, which was claimed to have been at the site where the Mayflower Pilgrims landed to found Plymouth Colony in December 1620. The Pilg
Plymouth Rock, inscribed with 1620, the year of the Pilgrims' landing in the Mayflower
The Landing of the Pilgrims by Henry A. Bacon (1877)
The 1867 monumental canopy that housed Plymouth Rock until 1920
The present (1920) superstructure designed by McKim, Mead & White for the Tercentenary of Plymouth Rock with the replica Mayflower II (left, behind trees) and Cole's Hill (right) with the Statue of Massasoit
The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on the ship Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony at what now is Plymouth, Massachusett
Plymouth Rock
…Plymouth Rock is a boulder in Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, which was claimed to have been at the site where the Mayflower Pilgrims landed to found Plymouth Colony in December 1620. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known written reference…
The Embarkation of the Pilgrims, an 1857 portrait by Robert Walter Weir now housed at Brooklyn Museum
Memorial to the departure of congregation members for Holland in 1608, at Immingham on the southern bank of the Humber estuary
Edward Winslow was one of the most influential Pilgrim leaders. He negotiated the treaty with the Wampanoags, he was the Pilgrims' representative to their financial backers in England, and served as governor of Plymouth Colony. This portrait of him is the only portrait of a Pilgrim that was painted from life. It hangs in the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Permission from the city council of Leiden, allowing the Pilgrims to settle there, dated February 12, 1609.