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Plymouth Rock is the disembarkation site of the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620.

Plymouth Rock Historical important rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. The Pilgrims did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings; the first known written reference to the rock dates to 1715 when it was described in the town boundary records as "a great rock." The first documented claim that Plymouth Rock was the landing place of the Pilgrims was made by Elder Thomas Faunce in 1741, 121 years after the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth. From that time to the present, Plymouth Rock has occupied a prominent spot in American tradition and has been interpreted by later generations as a symbol of both the virtues and the flaws of the first English people who colonized New England. In 1774, the rock broke in half during an attempt to haul it to Town Square in Plymouth. The top portion sat in Town Square, was moved to Pilgrim Hall Museum in 1834, and was returned to its original site on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in 1880. Today it is ensconced beneath a granite canopy designed by McKim, Mead & White.

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Plymouth, Rock County, Wisconsin Town in Wisconsin, United States

Plymouth is a town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,270 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Hanover is located in the town.

Plymouth Rock chicken American breed of domestic chicken

The Plymouth Rock is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was first seen in Massachusetts in the nineteenth century, and for much of the early twentieth century was the most popular chicken breed in the United States. It is a dual-purpose breed, raised both for its meat and for its brown eggs. It is resistant to cold, easy to manage, and a good sitter.

Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival

The Plymouth Rock Comedy Festival (PRCF) is an annual ensemble of comedy taking place throughout the Plymouth, MA area. Various comedic acts, both local and national, take the stage in this near-weeklong event that is put forth by Loretta LaRoche Productions.

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Pilgrim Hall Museum

The Pilgrim Hall Museum at 75 Court Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts is the oldest public museum in the United States in continuous operation, having opened in 1824.

Plymouth Harbor is a harbor located in Plymouth, a town in the South Shore region of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is part of the larger Plymouth Bay. Historically, Plymouth Harbor was the site of anchorage of the Mayflower where the Plymouth Colony pilgrims disembarked to establish a permanent settlement at Plymouth.

Plymouth Bay Bay at Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

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Plymouth Rock Studios

Plymouth Rock Studios was a proposed film and television production studio in Massachusetts. The studio had held a now-expired option to buy Waverly Oaks Golf Club in Plymouth as the site for the $650 million, 1,260,000-square-foot (117,000 m2) development originally slated to be complete in 2010. The proposal included fourteen sound stages 10-acre (40,000 m2) back lots, a multipurpose theater, a hotel and offices. The original proposed location for the studio complex was located in South Plymouth, near the town lines of Bourne and Wareham, but was rejected because of faulty land titles.

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Grace Rock

Grace Rock is a rock in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica lying 1.72 kilometres (0.93 nmi) off the southeast coast of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 after the British sealing vessel Grace from Plymouth, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.

Tramways in Plymouth

The tramways in Plymouth were originally constructed as four independent networks operated by three different companies to serve the adjacent towns of Plymouth, Stonehouse and Devonport in Devon, England. The merger of the 'Three Towns' into the new borough of Plymouth in 1914 was the catalyst for the three companies to join up under the auspices of the new Plymouth Corporation. The network was closed in 1945, partly as a result of bomb damage during World War II.