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Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. It is an important symbol in American history. There are no contemporaneous references to the Pilgrims' landing on a rock at Plymouth, and it is not referred to in Edward Winslow's Mourt's Relation (1620–21) or in Bradford's journal Of Plymouth Plantation (1620–47). The first known written reference to the rock's existence is in 1715, when it is described in the town boundary records as "a great rock." The first written reference to Pilgrims landing on a rock is found 121 years after they landed, in 1741. A rock traditionally identified as Plymouth Rock has long been memorialized on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Plymouth Rock is the disembarkation site of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620.
Plymouth Rock may also refer to:
- Plymouth, Rock County, Wisconsin
- Plymouth Rock Assurance
- Plymouth Rock chicken
- Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival
- Plymouth Rock Studios
- USS Plymouth Rock (LSD-29)
Usage examples of "plymouth rock".
The memory of the Pilgrims can not perish while Plymouth Rock remains to us.
He pointed at one of the live chickens on the far corner of the table, a big-legged Plymouth Rock pullet, minus a tag.