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Rock Formations in Massachusetts: Plymouth Rock, Dighton Rock, Rock House Reservation, Redemption Rock, Purgatory Chasm State Reservation

Rock Formations in Massachusetts: Plymouth Rock, Dighton Rock, Rock House Reservation, Redemption Rock, Purgatory Chasm State Reservation


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Chapters: Plymouth Rock, Dighton Rock, Rock House Reservation, Redemption Rock, Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, Mother Ann, Profile Rock, Rattlesnake Gutter, Doane Rock. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 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 is no contemporaneous reference to the rock, and it is not referred to in Bradford's journal Of Plymouth Plantation or in Mourt's Relation. The first written reference to the Pilgrims landing on a rock is found 121 years after they landed. The rock is currently located on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The location of the Plymouth Rock (more specifically, Dedham granodiorite, a glacial erratic), at the foot of Cole's Hill allegedly passed from generation to generation in the first century after the Pilgrims landing in 1620. When plans were afoot to build a wharf at the Pilgrim's landing site in 1741, a 94 year old Elder of the church named Thomas Faunce (who was the town record keeper for most of his adult life), identified the precise rock his father had told him was the first solid land the Pilgrims set foot upon. (However, the Pilgrims first landed near the site of modern Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod in November 1620 before moving to Plymouth). The rock is located about 650 feet (200 m) from where it is generally accepted that the initial settlement was built on nearby Leyden Street leading up toward Burial Hill. When Col. Theophilus Cotton and the townspeople of Plymouth decided to move the rock in 1774, the rock was split into two halves, and it was decided to leave the bottom portion behind at the wharf and the top ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=58655


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157462682
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Plymouth Rock, Dighton Rock, Rock House Reservation, Redemption Rock, Purgatory Chasm State Reservation
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1157462685
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 59 gr


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