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Plymouth Rock

Feb 18, 2020
Get ready, welcome to the real United States and welcome to Plymouth Massachusetts, we are here at the landing site of the first English settlers on the North American continent and behind me is, indeed, the Mayflower; There is a replica of the Mayflower, the original ship. that the Pilgrims came ashore nearby in 1620 now there is the importance of this town today, plus it is the home of Plymouth Rock, which is the legendary landing place of the Pilgrims when they first arrived on American soil and This is The type of ship they came on is apparently identical or almost a possible recreation of the original ship they came on, so you can imagine how passionate these people were about traveling through what is possibly one of the bodies of Angriest water in the world. planet in the seas of November/December I believe they actually landed here in December 1620 aboard a ship made of wood held together with wooden pegs gained on board all their personal possessions gave up everything they knew their home their friends family to come here and start a new life and at that time there was nothing here but wood and you know, I mean wildlife, but there was nothing here, there was no infrastructure, there were no houses to get to everything, everything had to be Built with their own hands, there were no power tools, these people had to be incredibly strong, incredibly enthusiastic individuals, to make that trip on that boat.
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Now we're in what is Pilgrim Memorial State Park and this is the smallest state park in the state of Massachusetts, so I have a few acres here right on this little cove in Plymouth and it has This boat has a couple of little structures built in the style of the period and it's the home, the current home, the final home, hopefully, Plymouth Rock, which we'll show you in a minute, as I said here at Pilgrim Immoral State. Park, there are a couple of these little structures, they're actually curio shops, souvenir shops here for the State Park, but they're built in the style of what would have been built in the 1620s, when our ancestors came through first time to American shores.
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More Interesting Facts About,

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Very small buildings. Let's see with wooden shingles, probably the original shingles would have been rougher, they would have been split shingles instead of very clean carved shingles, but even so this type of architecture is basically a salt box with a very steep slope because in this part of the country. Especially right on the coast, we have a lot of snow, so Russ would have had a very steep slope to prevent the snow loads from preventing the building from being crushed and you know they did some intricate work on the windows, but at that time they had to transport glass. boat with them from England, a very, very valuable asset, very, you know, managed with great care, but this is part of the park that is here, a beautiful little park that is only a few acres, but it is a beautiful testament to the legend that is Plymouth Rock, now Plymouth.
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The

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is both legend and historical fact in that they landed at Plymouth and there were

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s on the shore and oral tradition handed down which rock, no one was really sure that was completely accurate until today, However, Iraq was chosen. It is believed to be the original rock they stepped on when they came to the Americas and after several moves it landed here in this sort of granite Colosseum-like structure that now houses it to this day. Let's pan around here and Now I'll show you the actual rock if you were expecting a big rock. Sorry to disappoint you, but it's been through a lot of turmoil over the years since it was placed in its original spot from the beginning of time, but from the beginning. time from 1620 it stayed there for one hundred and fifty-four years, I guess, until 1774, when the settlers of that time decided that they were going to move it to preserve it and they tried to move it with oxen and unfortunately when they went to move it. it's split in half and holy shit was the top half that's why you see this big cement coated because the other piece was eventually salvaged and then throughout history they were put back together and cemented back together and moved to At another resting place, well, so that place they decided to move it again while on its trip here it fell off its transport and broke in half and had to be put back when it arrived at this place in the center of Plymouth and that's when they went ahead and carved the date of the pilgrims' landing into it, so now, hopefully, it's in its permanent home and we'll step back and give you a view of this solid granite structure. which was built to protect it from the elements. weather up and from the sea and all that, and you'll notice that we can back up a little bit and show you that here is a gateway with steel bars all the way out to the sea, to this little cove that essentially I think is supposed to represent the landing site. original as a coach, so here is a photo of the solid granite structure of the Coliseum that they built on top of Plymouth Rock to preserve and protect it.
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It has that beautiful solid cast iron railing around it to protect it. give it to the people so that there are no souvenir hunters to take pieces of it, what happened in decades or centuries past to protect Plymouth Rock theoretically forever, you can certainly tell by the magnitude that they intended that the last thing they you know it's like a thousand years ago, a beautiful view in the distance of the harbor here in Plymouth, many, you know, there are sports boats anchored here, you know, a safe harbor, a beautiful environment, a nice place to come in if you were a cruise ship and this is a beautiful little town, so I would like to thank you for joining us here in the real United States and Plymouth Massachusetts.
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