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
Plymouth Colony was the first permanent English colony in New England, founded in 1620, and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled b
Plymouth Rock
…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 to the rock dates from 1715…
Edward Winslow negotiated the treaty with the Wampanoags, served as the Pilgrims' ambassador to their financial backers in England, and was as one of the first governors of Plymouth Colony. This portrait is the only portrait of a Pilgrim that was painted from life.
The cover of John Smith's A Description of New England, published in 1616, which was the first text to use the name "New Plymouth" to describe the site of the future colony
Interview of Samoset with the Pilgrims, an 1852 book engraving
"Signing of the Mayflower Compact" by Edward Percy Moran, c. 1900