Plymouth, Mass

Today we took a drive south to Plymouth. Interesting little harbor town.

We could not see the rock. They are building a canopy around it so we could not get a picture of it.


We were able to go aboard the Mayflower II. It was built in the early 1950's and actually sailed from England to Plymouth, Mass. It is still seaworthy and is sometimes sailed to Boston for exhibit there. Doesn't seem possible that 102 pilgrims along with 30 crew members we aboard
this small ship. The Mayflower was a cargo ship that carried cargo up and down the English Coast. The pilgrims hired the ship. They were originally to go the mouth of the Hudson River. They were a little off course. With the bad weather setting in they decided to settle in Plymouth.

We also went to a Pilgrim Plantation that had a working Wampanoag Indian village. They also had a working English settlement. They lived close by each other for over a year. Each very careful and weary of each other. The pilgrims were not the first English to be in this area. John Smith had mapped the coast line several years before. They had kidnapped some of the male Wampanoag Indians and took them to England has slaves. So what we learned in history as the thanksgiving was actually over a year later.
Oh..the things we are learning!!