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Plymouth Rock
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Plymouth Rock
The Pilgrims first landed on Plymouth in December 1620. -
Plymouth Rock
The rock ended up as a special monument but at the time of the First Comers, they didn't pay too much attention to it. -
Plymouth Rock
The rock sat there for 121 years not doing a thing to make history and then became a subject of conversation. -
Plymouth Rock
The descendants of the First Comers were arguing about who first stepped on the rock. So they brought the oldest descendant of the First Comers (Elder Thomas Faunce) . He told them (pointing at the rock) that the First Comers steered up and out they stepped. -
Plymouth Rock
The descendants of the First Comers tried to move the rock and it cracked in two. They decided to leave the bottom of the rock and bring the top half. ( They figured that the First Comers stepped on the top not the bottom) -
Plymouth Rock
They built a wharf over the bottom half of the rock. The rock peeked out of the wharf. People leaned, sat, walked, jumped, spit, and ran on it. -
Plymouth Rock
They built a big monument for th top half of the rock. The bottom half was left under the wharf. -
Plymouth Rock
They tried to move the top half again but they broke it. They cemented it back together. -
Plymouth Rock
They put the rock back together and built a big monument that took one whole year to build. They engraved 1620 on the rock.