Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Rock is a boulder in , which was claimed to have been at the site where the Mayflower Pilgrims landed to found Plymouth Colony in December 1620.
Wikipedia
Photo: Jjron, GFDL.
  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: Historical important rock in Ply-mouth, Massachusetts, USA
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pilgrim Memorial State Park and Cole’s Hill.

Park
Photo: Raime, CC BY-SA 3.0.
comprises two monuments — and the — in , . Closely related to these memorials is the Myles Standish Monument State Reservation which can be seen across the Plymouth Bay in .

Tomb
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cole's Hill is a National Historic Landmark containing the first used by the Mayflower Pilgrims in in 1620. The hill is located on Carver Street near the foot of Leyden Street and across the street from .

Park
Photo: Faolin42, CC BY 4.0.
is a small 2.9 acres park located in the center of . The park name honors Mayflower settler Elder William Brewster.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Plymouth Village Historic District and Bradford–Union Street Historic District.

Neighborhood
Photo: Historical Perspective, Public domain.
The is a historic district encompassing part of the area of earliest settlement of the Plymouth Colony in .

Neighborhood
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The encompasses a waterfront residential area of , developed in the mid-19th for workers in local maritime and other industries.

Photo: Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is on the of . Known as "America's Hometown," is most famous for being the final landing place of the Pilgrims who arrived on board the Mayflower in 1620, after storms lead them away from their desired settlement, the Hudson River.

Plymouth Rock

Latitude
41.95809° or 41° 57′ 29″ north
Longitude
-70.66211° or 70° 39′ 44″ west
Open location code
87HFX85Q+65
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4723616343
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q1072391
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Plymouth Rock” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “صخرة بليموث”
  • Basque: “Plymoutheko haitza”
  • Catalan: “Plymouth Rock”
  • Catalan: “roca de Plymouth”
  • Cebuano: “Plymouth Rock (pulo)”
  • Cebuano: “Plymouth Rock”
  • Chinese: “普利茅斯岩”
  • Chinese: “普利茅斯巖”
  • Dutch: “Plymouth Rock”
  • French: “Plymouth Rock”
  • German: “Plymouth Rock”
  • Hebrew: “סלע פלימות‘”
  • Italian: “Plymouth rock”
  • Italian: “Roccia di Plymouth”
  • Japanese: “プリマス・ロック”
  • Korean: “플리머스 락”
  • Korean: “플리머스 바위”
  • Latin: “Saxum Plimmutense”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Plymouth Rock”
  • Norwegian: “Plymouth Rock”
  • Russian: “Плимутская скала”
  • Russian: “Плимутский камень”
  • Scots: “dhegdhgf”
  • Spanish: “Plymouth Rock”
  • Swedish: “Plymouth Rock”

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