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 " The Pilgrim Fathers— where are they? 
 The waves that brought them o'er 
 Still roll in the bay, and throw their spray, 
 As they break along the shore." 
 
 ^^HE introduction of visitors to Plymouth, as they 
 >-^ come by rail, is at Seaside, a station in the ex- 
 treme north part of tlie town. The dividing line between 
 Kingston and Plymouth runs through the middle of the 
 little station, and the northerly part, which is the re- 
 sidence of the station keeper, is in Kingston, and the 
 southerly part, the station proper, is in Plymouth. 
 
 As the cars move past the thicket of trees and shrubs 
 to stop, the occupants come in full view of the beautiful 
 panorama of Plymouth Harbor, spread out before their 
 eyes. At the near left, across the bay, is seen Captain's 
 Hill, so-called from its being the home of Captain Myles 
 Standish, and on its crest is a monument in honor of the 
 Pilgrim warrior, surmounted by a statue of fourteen feet 
 in height. Farther along is seen Rouse's Hummock, the 
 American terminus of the French Atlantic Cable. The 
 next prominent object is Clark's Island, where the Pil- 
 grims spent their first Sabbath in Plymouth, Next to 
 this is the headland of Saquish, and beyond is the Gurnet 
 with its twm lighthouses. Opposite these, tlje bold bluff 
 of Manomet thrusts itself out into the bay, while nearer 
 inland the long, thin ribbon of Plymouth Beach runs 
 across the harbor, like an artificial breakwater, to arrest 
 the waves of the ocean. 
 
 Few scenes can surpass this in loveliness, if the visi- 
 tor is fortunate enough to arrive when the tide is in. 
 
Although by the coDfiguration of the land, Plymouth 
 Harbor seems to have been designed for a perfect haven 
 against every wind that blows, unfortunatel}' it is dejjen- 
 ■dent upon a full sea for depth enough of water to float 
 vessels of nuieh draught at the wharves. In 1876 the 
 United States Government dug a channel from the 
 wharves to Broad Channel, where there is always a good 
 <lepth of water, so that now vessels drawing six feet can 
 come to the wharves at low tide, and at high tide those 
 drawing tvvelve or fourteen feet. Further improvements 
 have since been made by the government in this channel, 
 and at the wharves. 
 
 Immediately upon leaving the station of the N. Y., N. 
 H. & H. R. K., on arrival in Plymouth, and while 
 traversing Old Colony Park, on the way to the Main 
 Street of the town, the Samoset House is in full view in 
 the front. Looking towards the Samoset House, on the 
 way through the Park, the first street on its right is 
 €ushman Street ; and the walk continued up Cushman 
 Street will shortly bring the visitor to 
 
 The National Monument to the 
 Forefathers. 
 
 The corner stone of the National IMonument wi;s laid 
 August 2d, 1859, and the work entrusted to Hammatt 
 Billings, who drew the design for the Monument in all its 
 details. The main pedestal was put in position in 1876, 
 and in the following Summer the statue of Faith was 
 ■erected. The Monument was completed in October, 1888, 
 and dedicated with appropriate ceremonies August 1st, 
 1889. It is built entirely of granite, the statues all com- 
 ing from the quaries of the Hallowell Granite Company, 
 of Maine. 
 
 The idea of building a monument to the memory of the 
 Pilgrim Fathers was early entertained in the town, and 
 was formed into a definite object by the organization of 
 the Pilgrim Society ; which object was kept steadily in 
 view by them, and prosecuted to a successful conclusion. 
 
 The plan of the principal pedestal is octagonal, with 
 
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 rHE PILGRIMS' MONUMENT. 
 
four small and four large faces ; from the small faces 
 project four buttresses or wing pedestals. On the main 
 pedestal stands a figure of Faith. One foot rests upon 
 Forefather's Rock ; in her left hand she holds a Bible ; 
 with the right uplifted she points to Heaven. Looking 
 downward, as to those she is addressing, she seems to 
 call them to trust in a higher power. On each of the 
 four smaller or wing pedestal is a seated figure ; they are 
 emblematic of the principles upon which the Pilgrims 
 proposed to found their Commonwealth. The first is 
 Morality, holding tlie Decalogue in her left, and the 
 scroll of Revelation in her right hand ; her look is up- 
 ward toward the impersonation of the Spirit of Religion 
 above ; in a niche, on one side of her throne, is a prophet, 
 and in the other one of the Evangelists. The second of 
 these figures is Law: on one side Justice; on the other 
 Mercy. The third is Education : on one side Wisdom, 
 ripe with years ; on the other Youth led by Experience. 
 The fourth figure is Freedom : on one side Peace rests 
 under its protection ; on the other Tyranny is overthrovvn 
 by its powers. Upon the faces of these projecting 
 pedestals are alto-reliefs, representing scenes from the 
 history of the Pilgrims, — the Departure from Delft- 
 Haven ; the Signing of the Social Compact ; the Landing 
 at Plymouth ; and the first Treaty with the Indians. On 
 each of the four faces of the main pedestal is a large 
 panel for records. That in front contains the general 
 inscription of the monuments viz., "National Monument 
 to the Forefathers. P^rtcted by a grateful people in re- 
 membrance of their labors, sacrifices and sufferings for 
 the cause of civil and religious liberty." The right and 
 left panels contain the names of those who came over in 
 the Mayflower. The rear panel is plain, to have an in- 
 scription at some future day. 
 
 Tlie total height of the monument is eighty-one feet, 
 from the ground to the top of the head of the statue. 
 The following are some of the dimensions of this great 
 piece of work, said, on good authority, to be the largest 
 and finest piece of granite statuary in the world ; the 
 height of the base is fort3'-five feet ; height of statue, 
 thirty-six feet. The outstretched arm measures, from 
 
shoulder to the elbow, ten feet, one and one-half inches ; 
 from elbow to tip of finger, nine feet, nine inches ; total 
 length of aim, nineteen feet, ten and one-half inches. 
 The head measures around at the forehead, thirteen feet, 
 seven inches. The points of the stars in the wreath 
 around the head are just one foot across. The arm, just 
 ))elow the short sleeve, measures six feet, ten inches 
 around ; below the elbow, six feet, two inches. The 
 wrist is four feet around. The length of the finger point- 
 j ing upwards is two feet, one inch, and is one foot, eight 
 I and one-half inches around. The thumb measures one 
 foot, eight and one-half inches around. The circum- 
 ference of the neck is nine feet, two inches, and the nose 
 is one foot, four inches long. From centre to centre of 
 the eyes is one foot, six inches. The figure is two 
 hundred and sixteen times life size. 
 
 Pilgrim Hall. 
 
 Returning from the Monument grounds to Court Street 
 (the main street), and passing the head of Old Colony 
 Park, we soon see on our left a building with a Doric 
 portico, standing a little way from the street. This is 
 Pilgrim Hall, erected in 1824 by the Pilgrim Society as a 
 monumental hall to the memory of the Pilgrims. In 
 1880 it was rebuilt in a fire-proof manner, at a cost of 
 over $15,000, by Joseph Henry Stickney, P2sq., a wealthy 
 
 rilsiiiii Hall. 
 
Baltimore merchant of Boston nativity, who on a easnal 
 visit to Plymouth became so impressed with the impor- 
 tance of preserving with the greatest care the interesting 
 relics of the Pilgrims there deposited, that he most 
 liberally made this large expenditure to secure these 
 precious memorials from loss by fire. At the same time 
 he provided for better classification and exhibition of the 
 articles, those immediately connected with the Pilgrims 
 being disposed, mostly in glass cases, in the main hall, 
 while an interesting museum of antique curiosities is 
 arranged in the room below. Exteriorly, marked im- 
 provement was made by raising the Doric porcli to the 
 height of the main building, ornamenting the pediment 
 with a finely executed allegorical "Landing," in demi- 
 relief, and repainting and sanding the whole front in 
 imitation of stone. Quite a change was made in the 
 front area by the removal of the portion of Plymouth 
 Kock, which for forty-six years had been a prominent 
 object here, back to the Landing-place. The iron fence 
 formerly surrounding the Rock now stands at the north- 
 erly side of the building, enclosing an appropriate slab 
 bearing as an inscription the wording of the memorable 
 "Compact" made in the cabin of the Mayflower, and the 
 names of the forty-one signers of tiiis Compact appear on 
 the heraldic curtains of this fence. The hall is kept 
 open daily, with the exception of Sundays, at regular 
 hours for the accommodation of visitors, a fee of twenty- 
 five cents being charged. In the vestibule of the build- 
 ing a handsome tablet of Tennessee marble bears the 
 following inscription : 
 
 PILGRIM HALL. 
 BUILT A. D. 18 2 4, 
 
 BY THE 
 
 PILGRIM SOCIETY, 
 
 IN MEMORY OF THE FOREFATHERS, 
 
 REBUILT A. D. 1880, 
 
 BY 
 
 JOS. HENRY STICKNEY, 
 Of Baltimore, Md. 
 
 At the right is the curator's neatly furnished ante- 
 room, where visitors record their names and find entrance 
 
to the main hall. In this ante-room is a pictnre of the 
 "•Landing," executed in distemper, presented 1)\^ Robert 
 G. Shaw, of Boston. Here also is a clock once owned 
 by Gov. Hancock, and is still keeping correct time, 
 although over one hundred and ninety years old. 
 
 On the wall hangs a commission from Oliver Cromwell, 
 Lord Protector of P^ngland, to Governor Edward Wins- 
 low, as one of the arbitrators between Great Britain and 
 the United Provinces of Holland. It is written on 
 parchment, and is particularly valuable from having a 
 contemporaneous i)ortrait of Croinv/ell, which is in the 
 upper left-hand corner. The original signature was torn 
 off by some unscrupulous visitor, but has been supplied 
 by a finely executed /ac simile. 
 
 The main hall is forty-six by thirty nine feet, with 
 walls twenty-two feet higli, and is lighted entirely from 
 the roof. A good l)ackgronnd is made for the pictures 
 by plain maroon coloring of the walls, with a handsome 
 Grecian border above, while neat frescoing covers the 
 ceiling. At the east end is the kirge pictui'e of the 
 "Landing," thirteen l)y sixteen feet, painted by Henry 
 Sargent, of Boston, an amateur artist, and presented by 
 him to the Society in 1834. Its estimated value was 
 $3,000, and the massive frame cost about $400. At the 
 left is a portrait of the venerable Dr. James Thacher, the 
 first secretary of the Pilgrim Society. He was the author 
 of Thacher's Military Journal and a History of Plymouth, 
 which has been considered one of the best ever published. 
 The picture upon the right is a line painting, and a most 
 excellent likeness of the gentleman who so disinterestedly 
 and generously i-emodelled and beautified Pilgrim Hall — 
 Joseph Ilenry Stickney, Esq., of Baltimore. The por- 
 trait was i)ainted by D. G- Pope, a Baltimore artist, and 
 in subject and execution is worthy of its place in this 
 Pilgrim temple. 
 
 In the middle of the soutii wall is hung the large copy 
 of Wier's Embarkation frf)m Delft Haven, from the 
 o'riginal in tlie rolunda of tiie Capitol at Washington, 
 done for the Society ))y Edgar Parker; and on either side 
 are portraits of Rev. John Alden, great-grandson of 
 
Jolin Alden of the Mayflower ; Di". James Kendall, for 
 fifty-two years ministei- of the First Church ; Hon. John 
 Davis and Col. John Trumbull. 
 
 In the centre of the north side liangs the noble gift of 
 ex-Gov. Alexander H. Rice, of Massachusetts — Charles 
 Lucy's large painting of the Embarkation, This picture 
 is of great value, and at a prize exhibition in P^ngland 
 took the first premium of a thousand guineas. It is 
 altogether different in color and tone from either of the 
 others, and will bear close study. Original portraits of 
 the Winslow family — Gov. Edward Winslow, Gen. John 
 Winslow, Gov. Josiah Winslow and his wife Penelope, 
 are hung on either side of the Embarkation. Josiah 
 Winslow was the first native-born Governor of the 
 Colony. His grandson, Gen. John Winslow, was a 
 major-general of the British Army, and held several 
 important commands. He was the officer who, under 
 orders from England, removed from their homes the 
 French Acadians, whose sonows Longfellow has made 
 classic. The portrait of Gov. Edward Winslow is the 
 only one in existence, so far as known, of any person 
 who came in the Mayfiower. 
 
 Upon the westerly wall are a number of portraits, 
 including those of Hon. Joshua Thomas, the first presi- 
 dent of the Societ}', and of Deacon Ephraim Spooner. 
 The latter was a prominent citizen of the town, chairman 
 of the Selectmen through the Revolutionary War, in 
 which capacity he rendeied the country efficient service, 
 and for fifty-one 3'ears was town clerk. There are large 
 portraits of Gen. Joseph Trumbull, first Speaker of the 
 House of Representatives at AVashington, and of Hon. 
 Daniel Webster, the famous Massachusetts statesman, 
 whose home was in Marslilield, near Plymouth. Besides 
 these are a fine portrait of Washington, and a copy from 
 an original portrait of Sii Walter Raleigh, painted in 
 1775 ))y K. Alcock, London, and formerly the property 
 of President Jeffeison. Portraits of the AVinslow family, 
 including John and Isaac, and that of Elizabeth Wensley 
 are also on this wall. The most prominent among the 
 pictures which occupy' this end, however, are the original 
 
crayon sketch,' made in 1817 by Edwin Wliite, for liis 
 large picture of "The Signing of tlie Compact," in tlie 
 Trumbull Gallery at New Haven, Conn., and W. F. 
 Halsall's valuable and finely executed piinting of the 
 Mayflower at anchor in the harbor of Piymonth in the 
 winter of 1620. These tvvo i)ictures are well worthy the 
 attention they receive. With these also are engravings 
 of scenes in Pilgrim history, some of much meiit. 
 
 Across the head of the hall, under the Sargent picture, 
 is a raised platform and railing, :ind here are shown the 
 large articles connected with Pilgrim history, as the 
 model of the IMayflower, the chairs of Elder Brewster 
 
 Elder Brewster's Chair. Cradle of Peregrine White, 
 
 and Gov. Carver, the Peregrine "White cradle, etc. A 
 case at the opposite end of the hall contains a collection 
 of articles belonging to the First Church, among which is 
 the book given Gov. Bradford by Pastor John Robinson, 
 brought over in the Mayflower l)y Brtidford, and after- 
 wards given by him to the church ; a book printed )iy 
 Elder Brewster; the note-book of Eider Faunce ; a 
 number of interesting aut )giai)hs, and a collection of 
 vessels used in the Sacrament, presented to the church 
 many years ago, but now superseded l)y those of more 
 modern style. 
 
 The Alden case stands on the south side of the hall, 
 near the Sargent picture, and contains John Alden's 
 
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 Bible, printed in 1020; a halberd he once owned and 
 probably brought with iiini in the Mayflower; also ancient 
 documents witli his signature. Next to tiiis is the 
 Standisii case, in vvliieli is the famous Damascus sword 
 of the redoubtable Pilgrim captain. Gen. Grant, on his- 
 
 Sword, Pot and Platter of Myles Standisii. 
 
 Visit to Plymouth. October 14th, 1880, was much inter- 
 ested in this ancient wta[)()h. and handled it with evident 
 satisfiiction. The Araliic inscri|)ti()ns on the blade have 
 always been a puzzle, and notwithstanding many at- 
 tempts remained undeci|)herat)le until the visit to the 
 town, .Tune 7lh, 18,S], of Prof. .Tnnies Rosedale, of 
 Jerusalem, with a troupe of Aral)s from Palestine. Mr. 
 Eosedale, lieing an excellent linguist, was shown the 
 sword, and pronounced the inscri[)tions to be of different 
 dates — one of them in Cnlic, very old, and the other in 
 niedu^val Arabic of a later period, but still very ancient. 
 To the last he reiidiK' gave the following trjinslatiou : 
 
 '■'■With 2^eace God ruled Ills slaces (creatures), and 
 iclth. the jndgp.mevt of His una He troubled the mighty of 
 the tvirked." 
 
 He had no doubt that the weapon dated back two or 
 three centuries before the C'hii-tian era, and might be 
 nnicli older. It is probalilc that this famous blade came 
 down to ('.'([it. Standisii from the Crusaders, and possessed 
 
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 nn interesting liistory even in his (l;iy. In this case is an 
 iron pot and other articles fonnci a nnml»er of years since 
 in the cellar of the Standish iionse at l)iixl)nry. There 
 is also a piece of embroideiy, worked l)y tiie daughter of 
 Capt. Standish, at the bottom of which is wrought the 
 following verse : 
 
 Lorea Stiindisli is my name, 
 
 Lord guide luy Iieai-t lliat I may do Thy will ; 
 Also till my hands with such convenient skill 
 
 As will conduce to virtue void of shame, 
 And I will give the fflory to Thy name. 
 
 Below the Standish case is one containing a miscellan- 
 eous collection, among which is one of the most interest- 
 ing relics in tlie hall ; this is the first patent granted to 
 the J'lymouth Colonists by the New 1-Cngland Company, 
 and is the oldest state paper in existence in the United 
 States. A patent was granted by the Virginia Company 
 in the name of John Wincob, but never used. About 
 the time of the departure of the Forefathers from Eng- 
 land for tills country, a new eom|)any was created l)y a 
 royal charter, within the limits of which Plymouth was 
 included, and in 1G21 this patent was given to John 
 Pierce and his associates by the New England Company, 
 and sent over in the Fortune, arriving here in November 
 of that year. This patent was found in the land otiice in 
 Boston, among a mass of old papers, by William Smith, 
 Esq., one of the land committee. The Hon. John Davis, 
 then editing a new edition of Morton's New England 
 Memorials, obtained it for his use in this book, and from 
 him it came into the possession of the late Morton Davis, 
 Esq., in whose family it remained until recently, and was 
 finally deposited in the hall by Mrs. Wm. H. Whitman. 
 It bears the seals and signatures of the Duke of Lenox ; 
 the Marquis of Hamilton ; the p]arl of Warwick and Sir 
 Ferdinando Gorges. Tliere is one other signature, but it 
 is so obscurely written as to be illegible. 
 
 Ou the north side, nearest the ante-room, is the Wins- 
 low case with articles that have been in possession of this 
 family, and near by is the Winslow table, of massive 
 English oak, and a chair, both articles having formerly 
 been the property of Gov. Edward Winslow. Next 
 
above this is the White case, containing interesting relics 
 formerly belonging to William Wliite and his son Pere- 
 grine. Next is another miscellaneons case, in which is 
 the famons long sliot Thomi)son gnn ; and the gnn barrel 
 with which King Phillip was killed. The original manu- 
 script of Mrs. Heman's celebrated ode, "The breaking 
 waves dashed high," as also the original of William 
 CuUen Bryant's poem, "Wild was the da}', the wintry 
 sea," both presented by the late James T. Fields, of 
 Boston, aie also in this case, together with a copy of 
 Eliot's Indian Bible, of which there are now no more than 
 four, it is l)elieved, extant. There is here likewise a 
 piece of a mulberry tree planted at Scrooby, England, by 
 Cardinal Woolsey. 
 
 The north ante-room is fitted up as a library, and con- 
 tains cases of ancient, rare and invaluable books, and 
 ancient documents belonging to the Society. An old 
 sofa formerly owned by Gov. Hancock, upon which he 
 probaltly sat and plotted treason with Samuel Adams 
 against the English crown, is in this room. On the walls 
 of this loom are copies of the Winslow portraits, the 
 originals of which are now in the main hall, having be- 
 come the property of the society, by bequest of the late 
 Isaac Winslow, of Hingham, in 1883. Here also may be 
 seen the original signatures of those present at the Pil- 
 grim Society dinner, Dec. 22, 1820, at which time Mr. 
 Webster delivered his famous oration. The roll contains 
 the names of many distinguished men of those times. In 
 this room is the coat of arms of the British Crown, which 
 in "Good Old Colony times when we were under the 
 King," hung over the Judge's seat in the colonial Court 
 House, now our old Town House. When the Revolution 
 broke out and the loyalists had to flee, this was carried 
 away by the Tory Judge, or Clerk of the Courts, to Shel- 
 bnrne, N. S., from whence it was returned, some j^ears 
 ago, to its old home. 
 
 From the first ante-ro@m a flight of stairs conducts to 
 the basement, whare all desired conveniences for visitors 
 will be found. In the lower hall is an interesting museum 
 of articles, which have been separated from the Pilgrim 
 
collection, and as pertaining to ancient days in many in- 
 stances, or as curiosities, will well repay examination. 
 
 The Court House. 
 
 " Though justice be thy plea, consider this— 
 That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation." 
 
 At our right band, soon after leaving Pilgrim Hall, we 
 see a large building with a handsome fagade, standing a 
 little back from the street, and fronted by a small park. 
 This is the County Court House, erected in 1820, and re- 
 modelled in 1857. It is one of the finest buildings of the 
 kind in the State, and the judges of the different courts 
 give it precedence in point of beauty, convenience, etc., 
 over all they visit. It has two entrances. The northerly 
 one leads to a corridor, from which is a stairway to the 
 large court room above ; admittance to witness, grand 
 jury and waiting rooms. The southerly entrance is to a 
 corridor paved with Vermont marble, and from which 
 leads a flight of stairs for the court, members of the bar, 
 officers and jurymen, to the court room ; also giving 
 access to the Probate Court room and office of Register 
 of Probate. On the left, below, is the room of the Clerk 
 of Courts, with the room of the County Treasurer oppo- 
 site ; beyond, on the right is a waiting room, with that of 
 the County Commissioners on the left. At the further 
 end of the corridor is the Registry of Deeds office. lu 
 the latter room the visitor will find much of interest. 
 
 Here are the earliest records of Plymouth Colony, in 
 the handwriting of the men who are now held in rever- 
 ence the world over for their courage in braving the 
 perils of an unknow^u sea and an equally unknown shore, 
 to face the dangers of savage men and savage beasts, in 
 their constancy to what they believed to be their duty, 
 and for planting on this spot the great principles of a 
 government by the people — 
 
 " A chui-cli without a bishop, 
 A state without a king." 
 
 Here is their writing, some of it quaint and crabbed, 
 some fair and legible. Here, on these ver}' pages, rested 
 
the liauds, fresh from handling tlie sword and the musket, 
 or the peaceful im[)lements of luisbandry, of Bradford 
 and Brewster and Standish, and others of that heroic 
 band. Here is tlie orioinal lavino; out of the first street, 
 
 Pilgrim ISIeersteads, Town Brook. 
 Leyden Street. Here is the plan of the plots of ground 
 first assigned for yearly use, which they called, in the 
 tinge of the Dutch tongue they had acquired in their 
 long residence in Holland, "• meersteads." Here are the 
 simple and yet wise rules — laws they can hardly yet be 
 called — laid down for the government of the infant 
 'Colony. 
 
 Here is the will of Standish ; the order establishing 
 jury trial, in Governor Bradford's writing; the order for 
 the first customs law ; the division of cattle into lots, one 
 •cow being divided into thirteen lots. It was four years 
 after the Landing before any domestic cattle were 
 brought over, and in order to equalize them they were 
 divided into lots, each family having one. It must have 
 been a pretty nice affair to divide the milk of one cow 
 among thirteen parties, to satisfy all. 
 
 Here, also, is the original patent to the company from 
 the Earl of Warwick, granted in 1629, with its great wax 
 seal engraved for the purpose, and the original box in 
 -which it came from P^ngland. Here are signatures, also, 
 of nearly as much interest as those of the Pilgiims them- 
 selves — the marks of the original proprietors of all these 
 
broad fields and forests, whose names are represented by 
 signs of bows and tortoises, of reptiles and animals. 
 
 Here are also ancient deeds written in tbe Indian lan- 
 guage, as put in form by Eliot and Mayo. The record 
 clerk must have had his patience severely taxed when 
 they were copied. 
 
 A handsome lawn lies in the rear of the Court House, 
 and near by is the residence of the Sheriff of the County 
 and Keeper of the Prison. 
 
 Opposite Court Square is the new Memorial Methodist 
 Church, a fine building erected in 1885-6, which is an 
 ornamental and prominent feature of the locality. 
 
 The Prison. 
 
 " I stood iu Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs — 
 A pahice and a prison on each hand." 
 
 In the rear of the Court House stands the County 
 Prison, a substantial brick house, with granite trimmings. 
 There are eighty-nine cells, the average number of pris- 
 oners being about sixty-five. The workshop accommo- 
 dates some fifty prisoners, who are kept at some light 
 employment. All its appointments are of the most 
 modern character, and in charge of the model Sheriff of 
 the county, Capt. A. K. Harmon, this establishment is 
 one of the best penal institutions in the State. It may 
 be visited at stated hours on week days on application at 
 the Sheriff's room at the left of the vestibule. 
 
 The Rock. 
 
 "A rock in tlie wilderness welcomed our sires 
 From bondage far over the dark rolling sea ; 
 
 On that holy altar they kindled the tires, 
 Jehovah, which glow in our bosoms for Thee." 
 
 Continuing our way along Court Street a little further 
 we come to North Street, at which point the name of the 
 main thoroughfare changes to Main Street, the business 
 section of the town. 
 
 Turning down North Street, leading to the water, in a 
 little distance we come to the brow of the hill. On tbe 
 
left Winslow Street winds northward, and on it we see an 
 old mansion, partially hidden by two noble oUl trees. 
 This honse was bnilt by Edward Winslow, brother to 
 General Joini Winslow, some time before the Revolution. 
 He had the frame got out in England and brought over 
 for this purpose. Tlie trees in front were planted by his 
 daughter about 1760. 
 
 Deeending the liill, at our riglit, a sliort distance, we 
 see a beautiful and artistic structure of granite in the 
 
 Canopy over Plymoutli Rock — Cole's Hill. 
 
 shape of a canopy, supported on four columns, and under 
 this is the Rock, now world famous. The upper portion 
 of this renowned boulder, nearly all of that which is now 
 in sight, was for one hundred and five years separated 
 from the original Rock, and during this long period oc- 
 cupied localities remote from the Landing-place. In 
 1775, during the first fresh enthusiasm of the RevoUition, 
 in endeavoring to raise the Rock from its bed on the 
 shore, to prevent its being covered by tlie filling in of a 
 wharf about it. this piece split off. Auguries of the sep- 
 aration of the Colonies from the Mother Country were 
 then drawn from the circumstance, and the upper part 
 was taken, amidst much rejoicing, to Town Square, 
 where it was deposited at the foot of a liberty pole from 
 which waved a flag bearing the motto, "Liberty or Death." 
 It remained there nntil 1834, when at a celebration of 
 the Fourth of July it was carried in procession to Pilgrim 
 
Hall, deposited in the front area, and enclosed by the 
 iron fence which now surrounds the tablet with the Com- 
 pact near the same spot. Here it remained forty-six 
 years, its incongruous position, away from the water, not 
 being understood by visitors without lengthy explaina- 
 tion, Mr. Stickney, the gentleman by whose liberality the 
 alterations in Pilgrim Hall were at this lime being made, 
 recognized the impropriety of this separation of the Rock, 
 and proposed reuniting the parts at the original Landing- 
 place. The Pilgrim Society readily acceded to this pro- 
 position, and according!}' on Monday, September 27, 
 1880, without ceremony, this part of the Rock was placed 
 beneath the Monumental Canop}' at the water-side, the 
 reunited pieces probably now presenting much the same 
 appearance as when the Pilgrim shallop grazed its side. 
 As to the identity of this Rock, and the certainty of its 
 being the very one consecrated by the first touch of Pil- 
 grim feet on this shore, there is not the slightest loop- 
 hole for a doubt. Ancient records, now accessible, refer 
 to it as an object of prominence on the shore, before the 
 building of the wharf about it in the year 1741. Thomas 
 Faunce, the Elder of the church, who was born in 1646, 
 and died in 1745, was the son of John Faunce, who came 
 over in tlie Ann in 1623. At the age of ninety-five years, 
 hearing tliat the Rock, which from youth he had vener- 
 ated, was to be disturbed, he visited the village, related 
 the history of tlie Rock as told him by his father and 
 contemporary Pilgrims, and in the presence of many wit- 
 nesses declared it to be that upon which the Forefathers 
 landed in 1620. Thus it has been pointed out and iden- 
 tified from one generation to another, and from the daj's 
 of the first comers to the present time. Not a shadow of 
 distrust rests upon it as being the identical spot where 
 the first landing was effected on the shore of Plymouth. 
 
 Only a century and a half has elapsed since Elder 
 Faunce gave this personal testimony, and the lives 
 of two or three elderly people cover that period, so 
 tlie evidence is of positive rather than traditional 
 character. 
 
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 The Landing. 
 
 Let us picture to ourselves the scene on that Monday 
 morning, when, after their rest on Clark's Island, they 
 <;ame in their shallop to inspect the new country that they 
 had providentially found. The wharves and buildings and 
 every trace of civilization vanish. All is wild and un- 
 known. Across the harbor conies the boat, every eye 
 anxiously and keenly scanning the strange shore to dis- 
 cover the presence of human heiugs, who will be sure to 
 be enemies. They coast along the shore by cliff and low- 
 laud, hand on weapon, every sense alert for the expected 
 warwhoop and attack. A steep, sandy cliff, the base of 
 which is washed by the water, meets their eye ; at its 
 foot a great boulder, brought from some far away coast 
 by glaciers, in some long gone age. Oval in form, with 
 a flat top, it seems the ver^^ place to bring the great 
 clumsy boat up to, as from its top they can spring to the 
 shore dry shod, a matter which, after their previous wad- 
 ing in the ice cold water at the Cape, is of no small mo- 
 ment. The shallop is steered to its side ; the company 
 steps upon the Rock, and the Landing of the Foke- 
 FATHERS, now SO reverently commemorated, is completed. 
 Look along the shore at this da}', north or south, and you 
 may see cliffs as this was then. Divested of romance 
 
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 thrown around it by time, it should be remembered that 
 tlie ''Landing'' was that of the exploring party which 
 had coasted around the bay, the Mayflower then being izi 
 Cape Cod Harbor. 
 
 According to "Mourt's Relation," the exploring party 
 having landed from the Rock, "marched also into the 
 lane and found divers cornfields and little running brooks, 
 a place very good for situation. So we returned to our 
 ship again with good news to the rest of the people,, 
 which did much comfort their hearts." 
 
 The Mayflower weighs her anchor, and spreading saill 
 moves across the bay. Feeling carefully their waj' they 
 
 r 
 
 The Gurnet. 
 
 pass the Gurnet, and navigate along the channel inside 
 the beach, until, at the wide bend towards the town just 
 above the present Beach Pavilion, as is believed by those 
 who have studied the situation, the anchor is dropped, not 
 to be again disturbed until the following Spring. But 
 the location is not yet settled. Some, with the alarm of 
 the recent encounters vividly impressed upon them, think 
 the Island, surrounded by water and easily defended, 
 would be a good place. Jones Rivei , sending its waters 
 unabridged to meet the waves of the bay, attracts the at- 
 tention of others. "-So in the morning, after we had 
 called on God for direction, we came to this resolution, 
 to go presently ashore again, and to take a better view of 
 two places which we thought most fitting for us ; for We 
 
could not now take time for further search or considera- 
 tion, our victuals being mucli spent, especially our beer, 
 and it being now the 19th of December. After our land- 
 ing and viewing the places, so well as we could, we came 
 to a conclusion, by most voices, to set on a high ground, 
 where there is a great deal of laud cleared, and hath been 
 planted with corn three or four years ago ; and there is a 
 very sweet brook runs under the hillside, and many deli- 
 cate springs of as good water as can be drunk, and where 
 we ma}^ harbor our shallops and boats exceeding well ; 
 and in this brook fish in their season ; on the further side 
 of the river also much corn ground cleared. In one field 
 is a great hill on which we point to make a platform, and 
 plant our ordnance, which will command all around about. 
 From thence we may see into the bay, and far out into 
 the sea ; and we may see thence Cape Cod. Our greatest 
 labor will be the fetching of oui- wood, which is half a 
 quarter of an English mile ; but there is enough so far off. 
 What people inhabit here we yet know not, for as yet we 
 have seen none. So there we made our rendezvous, and 
 a place for some of our people, about twenty, resolving 
 in the morning to come all ashore and to build houses." 
 
 Cole's Hill. 
 
 " Not Winter's sullen face, 
 Not the tierce, t.awny race 
 
 In arms arrayed, 
 Not li anger shook their faith; 
 Not sickness' baleful breath, 
 Not Carver's early death, 
 
 Their souls dismayed." 
 
 Ascending the broad flight of steps that now lead to 
 the brow of the hill, and turning to the left, we tread 
 upon sacred, hallowed ground. Here were buried, in 
 that dark, sad winter in which they lauded, half of their 
 little band. The terrible tale is told concisely by the 
 narrator already quoted. ''This month (March) thirteen 
 of our number die. And in three months past dies half 
 our company — the greatest part in the depth of winter, 
 wanting houses and other comforts, being afflicted with 
 
the scurvy and other diseases which their long voyage 
 and unaccommodate condition brought upon them, so as 
 there die sometime two or three a day. Of a hundred 
 persons scarce fifty remaining ; tlie living scarce able to 
 bury the dead ; the well not sufficient to tend the sick, 
 tliere being, in their time of greatest distress, but six or 
 seven, wlio spare no pains to help tliem." They buried 
 them on tliis hill, and levelled the graves, and iu the 
 spring following planted corn above them, that the 
 Indians might not know the extent of their great loss. 
 At four different times the remains have been discovered. 
 In 1735, in a great rain, the water rushing down Middle 
 Street to the harbor, caused a deep gully there, exposing 
 human remains and washing them into the sea. In 1855 
 workmen engaged in digging trenches for the water- 
 works found parts of five skeletons. The graves were in 
 the roadway, about five rods south of the foot of Middle 
 Street. One of the skulls was sent to a competent 
 anatomist in Boston, and was pronounced to be of the 
 Caucasian race. The remains were carefully gathered 
 and placed in a metallic box, properly inscribed, and 
 interred on Burial Hill, subsequently being deposited in 
 the chamber of the canopy over the Rock, at its comple- 
 tion in the year 1867. Again, on the 8th of October, 
 1883, during repairs on the hill, other remains were 
 found, which were carefully removed, and afterwards, on 
 the 20th of November, enclosed in a lead box and re- 
 interred on the precise spot of their original burial. 
 Directly over the grave a granite slab has been placed by 
 order of the town, bearing an appropriate inscription. 
 On the 27tli of November, 1883, others still were 
 found which lie undisturbed near the last, and their 
 exact restmg place is designated on the memorial slab 
 above mentioned. Cole's Hill has other histories also. 
 From the first days its position over and commanding 
 the harbor led to its being selected as a place of defence. 
 In 1742 the General Court granted a sum of money to the 
 town to erect a battery here. In 1775, the old defence 
 having gone to decay, a new one was built and manned, 
 and continued to be kept up during the war. In 1814 
 still another fort was thrown up here, and placed in 
 charge of companies of soldiers stationed in the town. 
 
Leyden Street. 
 
 (Originally named First Street, afterwards in the Records called 
 Great and Broad Street; named Leyden Street in 1823.) 
 
 " There first was heard the welcome strain 
 Of axe and hammer, .saw and plane." 
 
 Walking around the brow of tlie hill, through Carver 
 Street, we pass the Universalist Church, erected in 1826 
 on the spot where stood the ancient Allyne House, one of 
 the last of its architecture to disappear in the Colony. 
 
 Standing on this elevation, we can see the reasons for 
 the selection of this place for the settlement. There, 
 below us, are the waters of "the very sweet brook," 
 into which the "many delicate springs" still continue to 
 run. How sweet they must have tasted to the palates of 
 these poor, storm-tossed wayfarers, who for months had 
 l)een drinking the ship's stale water. Sweet and pure 
 they are now as they were then. Then the brook came 
 to the sea in its natural wildness, unfettered by bridge or 
 dam. Where it met the waters of the ocean was quite a 
 wide estuary, so that before the lower bridge was built 
 schooners of considerable size were wintered here nearly 
 up to the second bridge. Beyond it is the land where 
 there was "much corn land cleared." Oi)posite the large 
 elm tree on. the bank they built theii' first building, a 
 "common house." In 18U1, in digging the cellar of the 
 upper house opposite the tree, several tools and a plate 
 of iiou were found, which without doubt were in this 
 house. It was about twenty feet square, and thatched. 
 It took fire in the roof January 14, 1621, and the thatch 
 was ])urnt. It was a common log house, such as is built 
 now by Western pioneers, and probably was not used 
 many years. These articles found were probably left in 
 it unnoticed when vacated, and only came to light when 
 the little Colony to whom they were so useful had ex- 
 panded into a great nation. A sign now marks this 
 spot. 
 
 " Mourt's Relation" furnishes us an interesting 
 record : 
 
 "Thursda}', the 28th of December, so many as could 
 went to work on the hill, where we purposed to build our 
 
25 
 Burial Hill, 
 
 Edward Wiiislow. 
 
 Mr. Isaak Allerton. 
 
 John Billiiigton. 
 
 Governor Bradford; 
 
 i A Highway leading to Town 
 i Brock. 
 
 King Sireet- Noio Main Street, 
 
 Mr. "Vniliam Brewster. 
 
 1 
 
 s 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 i 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 Stephen Hopkins. 
 
 John Goodman. 
 
 John Howland. 
 
 Peter Brown. 
 
 Samuel Fuller. 
 
 Comiiiou House. 
 
 \ Cole's Hill. 
 
 ii\The First Burial Place. 
 
 The Harbor. 
 
 Leydex Street in 1621. 
 
 platform for onr ordinance, and which doth command all 
 the plain and the hay. and from whence we ma}^ see far 
 into the sea, and might be easier impaled, having two- 
 rows of houses and a fair street. 8o in the afternoon we 
 went to measure out the grounds ; and first we took 
 notice how many families there were, willing all single- 
 men that had no wives to join with some family, as they 
 
thought fit, so that we might build fewer houses; which 
 was done, and we reduced them to nineteen families. 
 
 "To greater families we allotted larger plots : to ever}' 
 person half a pole in breadth and three in length, and so 
 lots were cast where every man should lie ; which was 
 done and staked out," and this was laying out of Leyden 
 Street. An unfinished plan of this street is to be seen on 
 the old records at the Court House. 
 
 Plymouth in 1627. 
 
 In 1627 Isaac DeRasieres, an officer from the Dutch 
 Colony of New Netherlands, now New York, visited 
 riymouth, and in a letter to Holland sends the following 
 description of the appearance of the place : 
 
 "New Plymouth lies on the slope of a hill stretching 
 ■east toward the sea coast, with a broad street about a 
 cannon shot of eight hundred [yards] long, leading down 
 the hill, with a [street] crossing in the middle, north- 
 wards to the rivulet and southwards to the land.* The 
 houses are constructed of hewn planks, with gardens 
 also enclosed behind and at the sides with hewn planks, 
 so that their houses and court-yards are arranged in very 
 good order, with a stockade against a sudden attack ; and 
 at the ends of the street are three wooden gates. In the 
 centre, on the cross street, stands the Governor's house, 
 before which is a square enclosure, upon which four 
 pateriors [steen-stucken] are mounted, so as to flank 
 along the streets. Ui)on the hill they have a large 
 square house, with a flat roof, made of thick sawn 
 planks, stayed with oak beams, upon the top of which 
 they have six cannons, which shoot iron balls of four and 
 five pounds, and command the surrounding country." 
 
 Town Square. 
 
 AYalking up Leyden Street, we pass on our left the 
 church of the Baptist Society, built in I860 to replace 
 their old house of worship on Spring Street, burned in 
 
 * An error in statement of the points of the compass is here 
 evident. It should be "southwards to the rivulet and northwards 
 to the land." 
 
1861. 'We now enter Town Sqnare, shaded by its noble 
 elms, planted in 17S4. On the corner of Main Street is 
 a large building, l)uilt in 1876 by Mayflower Lodge, 
 I. O. O. F. On the gronnd floor is the post-office, the 
 Pilgrim Bookstore and other places of business. In the 
 second stoiy is a fine Opera House, and a lodge loom of 
 the order, very elegantly fitted and furnished, with 
 necessar}' ante-rooms. This building covers the spot on 
 which stood the house of William Bradford, so many 
 years the Pilgrim Governor. Above this is the Congre- 
 gationalist "Church of the Pilgrimage," l)uilt in 1840, 
 standing, it is believed, very near the locality of the first 
 meeting-house. Opposite is an old building, now the 
 Town House. This was built in 1749 as a Court House, 
 the town contributing a pait of the cost for the privilege 
 of using it. AVIien the new Court House was built, in 
 1820, this building was purchased l)y the town. The 
 entrance to it, for some years after it was built, was 
 from tlie east end by a broad flight of steps. About 
 1787 these were taken awa}', jind the entrance fixed as at 
 present to make a market in the basement, which was 
 kept there as a town market foi' m.'iny years. At the 
 head of the square is the site of the church of the First 
 Parish, the original church of the Pilgrims. This edifice 
 was destroyed by fire November 22. 18D2, and will be 
 replaced l)y a handsome one of stone. 
 
 The first "meeting-house,'" as the Pilgrims called them, 
 to distinguish them from houses of worship of the 
 established church, has been proved by the investigations 
 of Mr. W. T. Davis, to have stood on the north side of 
 the square, near tlie spot occupied by the tower of Odd 
 Fellows' Hall and the store of Hatch & .Shaw. Of this 
 we know but little, except that it was erected in 1638 
 (the Forefathers before that time worshipping in the 
 fort on the hill), and had a bell. In 1683 a new building 
 was erected, not on the same lot, but farther out at tha 
 head of the square. This was forty-five by forty feet, 
 sixteen feet in the walls, had a Gothic roof, diamond 
 window glass and a bell. In 1744 still anoiher church 
 was built on or near the same site. This remained until 
 
1830, when a Gothic edifice was erected. This stood 
 farther up the hill llian the previous one, and was 
 destroyed by fire in 1892. 
 
 Burial Hill 
 
 " Tlie Pilgrim Fathers are at re<t: 
 
 When Suiimier's throned on higli, 
 And tlie workl's warm hreast is in verdure dressed, 
 
 f;<), stand on tlie hill where they lie." 
 
 Beyond and niiove T<jwn Sipiare stretclies the vei'dant 
 slope consecrM ted from the eailiest years of tlie Colony 
 as a place of sei)ulture. Here rei)ose the ashes of those 
 who survived the first winter. "In one field a oreat hill, 
 on which we point to niiike a platform and jjliint our 
 ordnance, which will coniuiand :dl r<jund about. From 
 thence we may see into the t)ay and far into the sea." 
 IVIarble tablets mari< the location of the Old Fort and 
 AV^atch Tower, while numerous stones and monuments, 
 which can easily be deci|)hered, point out resting-places 
 of Pilorirps and descendants. 
 
 Burial Hill— Gov. Bradford's jNIonument. 
 
 The marble obelisk in memory of Gov. William Brad- 
 ford, the second Governor, with its untranslatable He- 
 brew text; and its Latin inscription, freely rendered: 
 "Do not basely relinquish what the Fathers with difficulty 
 attained," erected in 182o, is near to us, and around it 
 
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 are numerous stones, marking the graves of liis descen- 
 dants. A little back, on a path to the rear entrance to 
 the hill, is the oldest stone in the cemetery. It must be 
 remembered that for many years the colonists had far 
 other cares, and many other uses for their little savings, 
 than to provide stones to mark their graves. These had 
 to be imported from England at much cost, and conse- 
 quently it was some years before any were able to afford 
 the expense. The oldest stone is that to the memory of 
 Edward Gray, 1681. Mr. Gray was a merchant, and one 
 of the wealthiest men in the colony. Near the head of 
 this path is a stone to William Crowe, 1683-4. Near by 
 is one to Thomas Clarke, 1697, erroneously leported to 
 have been the mate of the Mayflower, but who came in 
 Ihe Ann. in 1623. Clark's Island, supposed I)y many to 
 have been named for Thomas Clark, received its name 
 from John Clark, now known to have been the mate of 
 the Mayflower. Beside the giave of Thomas Clark is 
 that of his son, Nathaniel, who was one of the Councillors 
 of Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of New England. 
 Other old stones are those of Mrs. Hannah Clark, 1697; 
 and John Cotton, 1699. These are all the original 
 stones, bearing dates in the seventeenth century. There 
 are some with dates of that century which have, been 
 erected since, by descendants, including the monument 
 to Gov. Bradford, before alluded to; the monument to 
 Robert Cushman, and the stone over the remains of John 
 Howland. The inscription on the latter stone reads as 
 follows : 
 
 Here ended the pilgriraage of John Howland and Elizabeth, 
 his wile. She was the daugliter of Governor Carver. They arrived 
 in the Mayflower, December, 1620. They liad fonr sons and six 
 (laughters, from whom are descended a numerous posterity. 
 
 KilL', Feb'y 23d. John Howland, of Plymouth, deceased. He 
 liveil 10 the age of eighty years. He was the last man that was left 
 of those that came over in the ship called the Mayflower, that lived 
 in Plymouth. — [Plymouth Records. 
 
 Near the Bradford monument are the graves of his 
 
 family. The face of the stone at the grave of his sou, 
 
 Major William Bradford, shelled off in 1876-7, but the 
 
 inscription has since been retraced. The cut following is 
 
 reproduced from a view taken of the original, and is an 
 
 exact fac simile : 
 
Here lyes ye body of ye liononrahle Major William Bradford, who 
 expired Feb'y ye 'iOth, 170:5-4, age 79 years. 
 
 He lived loii<j, but still was doinjj good, 
 
 And in liis 
 After a lilr 
 His very n: 
 
 •li blood, 
 
 It. rest, 
 
 •St. 
 
 At the grave of aiiotlier son, the headstone reads as 
 
 follows : 
 
 Here Ives interred ye body of Mr. Josepb Bradford, son of the late 
 Honorable William Bradford, Esq., Governor of Plymouth Colony, 
 who departed this life July the 10th, 1715, in the eighty-lifth year of 
 his age. 
 
 The following are some of the inscriptions of the older 
 stones : 
 
 Here lyes ye body of ^Irs. Hannah Sturtevant, aged about 
 si.\ty-four years. Dec. in March, 1708-9. 
 
 Here lyes buried the body of Mr. Thomas Faunce, ruling elder of 
 the First Church of Clirist in Plymouth. Deceased Feb'y 27, 1745, in 
 the ninety-ninth year of his age. 
 
 Tlie fathers— where are they? 
 
 Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. 
 
 [Elder Faunce was the last who held the office of rul- 
 ing elder in the church. He was contemporary with 
 many of the first comers, and from him comes much of 
 the information we possess about the localities now 
 venerated.] 
 
 The epitaphs in old graveyards possess much interest 
 to the lovers of the quaint and curious, and this first 
 cemetery of New England is not without its attractions of 
 that kind. The following are some of the most interest- 
 
This stone is erected to the memory of that unbiased judge, faith- 
 ful otHoer, sincere friend, and honest man. Col. Isaac LoTHROP,vvho 
 resigned his life on tlie 26th day of April, 1750, in the forty-third year 
 of his age. 
 
 Had Virtue's charms the power to save 
 Its faithful votaries from the grave. 
 This stone had ne'er possessed the fame 
 Of being marked with Lothrop's name. 
 
 A row of stones on the top of the hill, near the marble 
 
 tablet marking the locality of the Watch Tower, is raised 
 
 to the memory of the ministers of the First Parish. Back 
 
 of these is the Judson lot, where the sculptor's chisel has 
 
 perpetuated the remembrance of Rev. Adoniram Judson, 
 
 the celebrated missionary to Burmah, whose body was 
 
 committed to the keeping of old ocean. On the westerly 
 
 side of the hill is a monument erected by Stephen Gale 
 
 of Portland, Maine : 
 
 To the memory of seventy-two seamen, wlio perished in Plymouth 
 Harbor, on the 2()th and 27th days of December, 1778, on board the 
 private armed brig, General Arnold, of twenty guns, James 
 Magee, of Boston, Commander ; sixty of whom were buried in this 
 spot. 
 
 About midway on the easterly slope, a little to the 
 
 north of the main path up the hill, on the stone to a child 
 
 aged one month : 
 
 He glanced into our world to see 
 A sample of our miserie. 
 
 On a stone a little farther north, to the memory of four 
 children, aged respectively thirty-six, twenty-one, seven- 
 teen and two years : 
 
 Stop, traveller, and shed a tear 
 Upon the fate of children dear. 
 
 On the path towards the school-house, on a stone to a 
 
 woman with an infant child by her side : 
 
 Come view the seen , 'twill fill you with surprise, 
 Behold the lovliest form in nature dies; 
 At noon she flourished, blooming fair and gay; 
 At evening an extended corpse she lay. 
 
 Near the entrance to this path is the grave of a Revoul- 
 
 tionary soldier, Capt. Jacob Taylor ; died 1788 : 
 
 Through life he braA'ed her foe, if great or small. 
 And marched out foremust at his country's call. 
 
 On this path is the grave of Joseph Bartlett, who died 
 
 in 1703: 
 
 Thousands of years after blest Abel's fall, 
 
 'Twas said of him, being dead he speaketh yet; 
 From silent grave methiuks I hear a call : — 
 
Pray, fellow mortals, don't your death forget. 
 'You that your eyes cast on this grave. 
 Know you a dying time must have. 
 
 lsea.Y the same place is a curious stone, to the memory 
 
 ■ of John Cotton : 
 
 • Here lyes interred three children, viz., three sons of Rev. Mr. 
 
 John Cotton, who died in the work of the gospel ministry 
 
 at Charleston, South Carolina, Sept. ye 18ih, 18B9, 
 
 where he had great success, and seven sons of Josiah Cotton, Esq., 
 
 who died in their infancy. 
 
 On the southerly slope of the hill, near a little pine 
 
 grove, is a stone to a child : 
 
 The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are 
 •set on edge. 
 
 On a stone to the memory of Thomas Jackson, died in 
 
 1794 ; 
 
 The-spider'-s most attenuated thread 
 I« cord, is cable, to man's tender tie. 
 
 Martha Cotton, 17%. 
 Many years I lived, 
 Manv painful scenes I passed, 
 Till God at.last 
 Called me home. 
 
 -In a long lot, enclosed with an iron fence : 
 
 F. W. Jackson, obit. Mch. 23, 17117, 1 yr., 7 dys. 
 Heav'n knows what man 
 He might have made. But we 
 He died a most.rare boy. 
 
 Fannie Crombie. 
 
 As young as beatxtiful ! and soft as young, 
 And gay as soft! and. innocent as gay. 
 
 On the path by the fence in the rear of the hill : 
 
 The father and the children dead, 
 
 "We hope to Heaven their souls have fled. 
 
 The widow now alone. is left. 
 
 Of all her family bereft 
 
 May she now put her trust in God, 
 
 To heal the wound made by His rod. 
 
 On a stone raised to the memory of a young child : 
 
 He listened for awhile to hear 
 
 Our mortal griefs; then tun'd his ear 
 
 To angel harps and songs, and cried 
 
 To join their notes celestial, -sigh 'd and died. 
 
 A little farther on in this path is the stone to Tabitha 
 
 'Flasket, 1807. The epitaph on which, written by her- 
 
 ^self, breathes such a spirit of defiance that it attracts 
 
 .much attention : 
 
 Adieu, vain world, I've seen enough of thee; 
 
 And I am careless what thou says'.t of me; 
 
 Thy smiles I wish not, 
 
 Nor thy frowns I fear, 
 
 I am now at rest, my head lies (luict here. 
 
Mis. Flasket, in lier widowhood, taught a private 
 school for small children, at the same time, as was the 
 custom of her day, doing her spinning. Her mode of 
 punishment was to pass skeins of yarn under the arms of 
 the little culprits, and hang them upon nails. A sus- 
 pended row was a ludicrous sight. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Flasket (husband of Tabitha) died in 1794, 
 
 at the age of forty-eight years. The widow wrote his 
 
 epitaph as follows : 
 
 All you that doth behold my stone, 
 Consider how soon I was gone. 
 Death does not alwaj's warning give, 
 Therefore be careful how you live. 
 Repent in time, no time delay, 
 I in my prime was called away. 
 
 Nearly opposite this is one on a very young child : 
 
 The babe that's caught from womb and breast, 
 Claim right to sing above the rest. 
 Because they found the happy shore 
 They never saw or sougiit before. 
 
 As this path comes out on the brow of the hill, near a 
 white fence, is a stone to Elizabeth Savery, 1831 : 
 
 Remember me as you pass by, 
 As you are now, so once was I ; 
 As I am now, so you will be, 
 Therefore prepare to follow me. 
 
 A little from the path up Burial Hill, to the left, just 
 below the Cushman monument, a marble tablet marks 
 the spot where the fort of the little colony was situated, 
 quite a portion of its outline still being distinct, particu- 
 larly at the easterly corner. We can see at once with 
 what sagacity the site was chosen, undoubtedly by Stand- 
 ish. It commanded Leyden Street and the approaches 
 from the brook over which the Indians came. 
 
 Standing here, we have a view of the southern part of 
 the town. The blue heights of Manomet Hills shut in 
 the horizon. Beyond them lies the little hamlet of South 
 Plymouth, a rural village with summer hotels, the Mano- 
 met and Brastow Houses, of considerable celebrity, 
 especially among sportsmen. On this side is the village 
 of Chiltonville, with its churches and factories. Far 
 down to the shore, near the head of the Beach, is the 
 Hotel Filgrim. This hotel has long been known as one 
 of the finest summer resorts ou the coast. Nearer lies 
 
-Maiiniiiet ];i litis. 
 
 the southerly portion of the main villnge. Tlieie is tlie 
 coniuion, hiiil out veiy early us a '■•Training- Green," the 
 name it heais to-day, with the .Soldiers' Monument, 
 erected in 1869. 
 
 Watson's Hill. 
 
 opposite is Watson's Hill, now covered with houses. 
 This was the ^' Ccaitauganteest" of the Indians, one of 
 their favorite resorts, where they had their summer 
 camps, and on the level Itelovv planted their corn. It is 
 famous as the scene of the treaty with ISIassasoit. Gov. 
 Bradford had a tract of land assigned him here on which 
 to raise corn, and to this day portions of the hill remain 
 in the Bradford name and others of direct descent from 
 him. 
 
 The Watch Tower. 
 
 A little to the north of the site of the old fort another 
 tablet marks the place of the brick watch tower erected 
 in 1643. The locality of this tower is indicated by four 
 stone posts set in the ground to mark its corners. The 
 brick foundation is still there, about a foot below the 
 
surface, and tlie old hearthstone on which the Pilgrims 
 built their watch fires still lies where they placed it, on 
 the southerly side of the enclosure. The location of the 
 tower was discovered several years ago in digging a 
 grave, when the sexton came upon the foundation. The 
 town records of September 23, 1643, have the following 
 entry in regaid to it: "It is agreed upon by the whole 
 that there shall l)e a watch house forthwith, built of 
 brick, and that Mr. Grimes will sell us the brick at 
 eleven shillings a thousand." This is the first mention 
 of brick in the records of the Colony, and it is to be pre- 
 sumed that this marks about the time of the first brick 
 yard. 'J'he cause of the tower being built was probably 
 the threalenings of the Indians, which resulted in the 
 Narragansett wai-. 
 
 Still later, in 167G, another fortification was erected on 
 the hill, it is presumable covering the same area, en- 
 closin^i a hundred feet square, ''with palisadoes ten and 
 a half feet high, and three pieces of ordnance planted on 
 it.'" The town agreed with Nathaniel Southworth to 
 build a watch hou?e, "which is to be sixteen feet in 
 length, twelve feet in lireadth, and eight feet stud, to be 
 walled with boards, and to have two floors, the upper 
 floor to be six feet al)ove the tower, to batten the walls 
 and make a small pair of stairs in it, the roof to be 
 covered with shingles, and a chimney to be built in it. 
 For the said work he is to have eight pounds, either in 
 money or other pay equivalent." This being only thirty- 
 two years after the the building of the brick tower, it 
 would seem as if the latter could hardly have fallen or 
 been taken down, and it is possible, if not probable, that 
 the wooden watch tower was built upon the old brick one 
 — but of this we can only conjecture. This was in the 
 period of King Philip's war. From this might have been 
 seen the blaze of the houses at Eel River (now Chilton- 
 ville), and the terrible war-whoop almost heard as the 
 savages burst upon the little hamlet, near where is now 
 the store of Mr. George W. Bramhall, on that peaceful 
 Sabbath when tiiey left eleven dead bodies and smoking 
 ruins to mark their savage onslaught. 
 
The Harbor. 
 
 From the easterly brow of Burial Hill we have a 
 beautiful picture of the harbor and its surroundings. 
 Below us the ground slopes to the water, cut into terrace 
 below terrace, with the buildings upon them. At its 
 foot arc the wharves and harbor, and beyond is the 
 Beach, near which the Mayflower swung at her anchors. 
 Manomet is the range of misty blue hills stretching into 
 the bay on the right. Kingston and Duxbury, with 
 Captain's Hill, are on the left, and far out Clark's 
 Islan(-1, Saquish and the Gurnet, with the thin, sandy 
 strip of beach joining the latter headlands. On the 
 Gurnet is Fort Andrew, and at Saquish is Fort Standish, 
 both earthworks built b}^ the government during the civil 
 war of 1861-5. The sites are the property of the United 
 States. The Gurnet, it is said, takes its name from a 
 somewhat similar promontory in the English channel, 
 near Plymoulh, England. On it are located a U. S. 
 Life - Saving Station and Lighthouse. Saquish is an 
 Indian word signifying abundance of clams. Clark's 
 Island was named from the mate of the Mayflower, who 
 commanded the shallop on tlie expedition when the island 
 was discovered. 
 
 The following statistics were furnished by Capt. A. M, 
 Harrison from the U. S. Survey of 1853-57 : From the 
 <^hore end of Long Wharf, in a straight line, to Gurnet 
 
 Along Shore from Atwood's WLarf. 
 
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 Light, the distance is four and seven-sixteenths statute 
 miles, or three and seven-eighths nautical miles. The 
 length of Plymouth Beach, from the foot of Manomet 
 Hills to the beacon on extreme point, is three and five- 
 sixteenths statute miles, or two and seven - eighths 
 nautical miles. The length of the Beach, from its. 
 jimction with the mainland to the beacon, is two and 
 tive-eighths statute miles, or two and one-fourth nautical 
 miles. 
 
 Voyage of the Mayflower Shallop.. 
 
 From here we can trace the whole course of that 
 expedition which started on its voyage of discovery from, 
 the Mayflovver in Provincetown harbor, directly opposite 
 us across the bay. Coasting along the inside of Cape- 
 Cod at the right, its sandy shore hidden by distance from 
 our sight, some of the exploring party on foot, forcing 
 their way through the tangled wilderness, sometimes 
 wading in half-frozen water through the surf or across 
 brooks, they slowly make their way. Constautly on the- 
 aleit, and two or three times attacked and beating off 
 their assailants, the shallop with her company nears 
 Manomet headland. And now it began to snow and 
 rain, and the wind to blow and the seas to rise. Now 
 the hinge of the rudder breaks, and oars are got out to- 
 steer with. jVIaster Coppin, tije i)ilot, bi^ls them to be of 
 good cheer, for he sees the harbor wliicii he had prom- 
 ised tiiem. Across the bay they steer, keeping on ai 
 press of sail to make the desired harbor before nightfall^ 
 when Clash goes tlie mast, broken into three pieces, and 
 the shallop is near being wrecked. Now the flood-tide 
 takes them and bears them in past the Gurnet nose, and 
 Master Coppin, finding himself in a strange place that 
 he had never seen before., throws up his hands and ex- 
 claims : '•'■The Lord be merciful to us, I never saw this 
 place ])efore ;" and in his terror would have run the boat 
 on shore, "in a cove full of breakers," between the 
 Gurnet and Saquish ; ''but a lusty seaman which steered 
 bade those that rowed, if the}' were men,, about with her^ 
 
or else they were all cast away." Tiie short twilight of 
 the winter day had faded into darkness, as the storm- 
 tossed and disspii ited company found themselves '"under 
 the lee of a small island." There it is before us, the 
 third highland to the left — the first being the Gurnet and 
 the second Saquish. They landed, and kept their watch 
 
 Clark's Islaml. 
 
 that night in a rain. Gov. Bradfoid, in his history, 
 gives us a few more particulars: "In the morning they 
 find the place to be a small island secure from "Indians. 
 And this being the last da}' of tiie week, they here dry 
 their stuff, fix tiieir pieces, rest themselves, retuin God 
 thanks for their many deliverances, and here the next 
 day kee[) their Christian Sabbath." Tradition says that 
 from a large rock with a flat top that is tliere now, bear- 
 ing the inscription, '-On the Sabboth day wee rested," 
 the first prayer ascended on this shore ; and there, for the 
 first time in New England, praise and thanks were given 
 to that watchful Provitlence that had guided and guarded 
 them. The next day. INIonday, they sailed up to the 
 shore below us, and ste!)ping on Plymouth Rock, made 
 the exploration which ultimately determined tiiem to fix 
 upon tins place for their plantation. 
 
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 Town Brook. 
 
 "And tliere is a very sweet brooke runnes iiiuler tlie hillside, 
 and niaiiy delicate springs of as good water as can be drunke." 
 
 Gov. Bradford. 
 
 At the foot of Burial Hill, on the sontli side, the Town 
 Brook flows tliiough the centre of the tovvn, "vexed in all 
 its seaward course liy bridges, dams and mills." Along 
 the banks the Pilgrims erected their fiist dwelling-houses 
 and brought water from ''the very sweet I)rook" below, 
 into which the "many delicate springs" still continue to 
 run. It is a favorite resort for arti:-ts who delight in 
 sketching the picturesque scenery and ancient archi- 
 tecture. 
 
 The stream proceeds from Billiugton Sea, about two 
 miles distant from the town. It furnishes a valuable 
 water power at the present time, and in tl)e days of the 
 Pilgrims, and for nearly two centuries after, it abounded 
 with alevvives almost at theii' doors, affording an im- 
 portant resource for the suppl}' of their wants. The 
 tide fli)wed for some distance up this stream and formed 
 a convenient basin for the reception and safe shelter of 
 the shallops and other vessels employed in their earlier 
 enterprises of fishing and traffic. Over this brook came 
 the great sachem Massasoit, with twenty of his braves, 
 on a visit to the Pilgrims, when was concluded that treaty 
 which during its continuance of forty years conduced so 
 effectually to the safety and permanence of the Colony. 
 
 Morton Park. 
 
 One of the most attractive s[)ots in old Plymouth, and 
 one that the casual visitor does not always see, is Morton 
 Park. Lying a little more than a mile from the centre of 
 the village, it affords a convenient pleasure-ground for 
 Plymouth people, and the beauty of the place is such as 
 to attract all lovers of woodland scenery'. Nature has 
 done her most to make the park charming, and man has 
 very wisely made lille atlem|)t to improve it. One 
 hundred and fifty acres there are, consisting of deep 
 woods and open coiuitry, hills and valleys, brooks and 
 ponds. 
 
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 The park neaily surrounds Little Pond, consisting of 
 forty acres, and borders for a mile on the historic Billing- 
 ton Sea, which has 308 acres. Roads and paths have 
 been laid out in romantic situations, and a few trees 
 planted, but otherwise the wild woodland remains in its 
 natural state. In 1889 the land was given to the town 
 by several pul)lic-si)irited citizens, and the park was 
 named for Nathaniel Morton, Esq., one of the donors. 
 
 The Town, 
 
 By the census of 1895 the population of Plymouth was 
 7,958. The total valuation of the town in that year was 
 $6,646,750, of which $4,646,525 was real estate and 
 $•2,000,225 personal. The number of polls assessed was 
 2,416. 
 
 Few towns are better provided with city conveniences. 
 A system of water works, introduced in 1855, supplies 
 the inhabitants with piu'e water from the great ponds 
 that lie in the woods a few miles south of the main 
 village. The main thoroughfares are lighted by elec- 
 tricity, and both electricity and gas are in use fo^* 
 illuminants in public buildings, stores, factories and 
 dwellings. An electric street railway carries passengers 
 over six miles of Plymouth's highway and into the ad- 
 joining town of Kingston. 
 
 The town has a Public Library containing 11,000 
 volumes. Its schools rank among the best in the State, 
 
 Tlie Town from the Soutli. 
 
and its High Scliool building, erected in 1891 at a cost of 
 $40,000, has accommodation for over 200 pupils. In its 
 religious denominations are represented the Unitarian, - 
 Congregational, Baptist, Universalist, Methodist, Catho- 
 lic, Episcopal, Advent and German Lutheran faiths. 
 
 The town contains five banking institutions — the Old 
 Colony and the Plymouth national banks, the Plymouth, 
 the Plymouth Five-Cents and tiie Plymouth Co-Operative 
 savings banks, occupying two fine brick buildings on 
 Main Street. There are seven excellent hotels within. 
 the town limits, three of them well known as summer 
 resorts. 
 
 Plymouth has good streets, her principal thoroughfares 
 being macadamized. The sidewalks throughout the 
 centre of the town are concreted. Her stores are kept 
 abreast of the times, and two weekly newspapers chroni- 
 cle the happenings of local and neighborhood interest. 
 
 Its Industries. 
 
 The character of Plymouth's industrial life has entirely 
 changed within a half-century. Within the memory of 
 men now living, the time was when the town boasted a 
 fleet of seventy-five fishermen and enjoyed prestige as a 
 fishing port. In common with other seaport towns of 
 New England, this industry has departed, but thriving 
 manufactories have risen on the ruins of her maritime 
 glory. 
 
 Plymouth's manufacturing industries show great diver- 
 sity of character, and witli rare exceptions have been 
 exceedingly prosperous. The yearl}' value of their total 
 product is not far from $7,000,000. The great cordage 
 works at North Plymouth, one of the very largest con- 
 cerns of the kind in the world, emi)loy many hundred 
 hands, and have built up a flourishing village of their own 
 in that quarter of the town. There are two large mills 
 engaged in the production of woolen and worsted cloths, 
 and two making cotton duck. Three extensive factories 
 keep many of Plymouth's inhabitants busily employed in 
 the manufacture of tacks and rivets. An iron foundry 
 
does a lieavy Inisiuess in stove-making. Besides these 
 tliere are manufactories of boots and shoes, bedstead 
 joints, insulated wire for electrical purposes, products of 
 zinc and copper, ornamental nickel articles, nails and 
 tack-plate, woven seamless pockets, saw-gummers and 
 swages, barrels, boxes, kegs and kits, and numerous 
 smaller enteiprises. The electric light and power com- 
 pany furnishes power for several of these establishments. 
 
 Plymouth's manufactuied products bear an excellent 
 name in the mai'kets of the world, her cordage, duck 
 and woolen goods being particularly well and favorably 
 known. 
 
 Of late years many Plymouth residents have engaged 
 in the cranberry culture on an extensive scale, and their 
 ventures have been exceedingly profitable. A new in- 
 dustry, and one which is gi'owing to large proportions, is 
 the raising of brook trout and spawn for the markets. 
 
 Old Houses. 
 
 Plymouth contains many old buildings antedating the 
 Revolution, but the}' have been lepaired and modernized 
 so tliat they do not have that appearance at present, and 
 visitors aie often disappointed in not finding the antique 
 structures whicli they ex[)ected. Old i)eople, now living, 
 can remember when several of these buildings had '"Dutch 
 ■ovens" and cliimnevs Imill on tlir ont^iilr. 
 
 Oklt^st House in Piyiiiouili, Doteii House, lOUO. 
 
43 
 
 Tlie oldest house now standing is the so-called Doteu 
 House on Sandwich Street, al)out half a mile from the 
 centre of the town. It was built in 1660 b}' William 
 Harlow, and in 1773 was owned by Nathaniel Doten, 
 from whom it descended to heirs .who still hold it. 
 Among other old houses still remaining are the Leach 
 House, on Summer Street, built in 1679; the Howland 
 House, 1666; Cole's Blacksmith Shop, 1684; the Shurt- 
 leflf House, 169S; the Crowe House, 1664; and the 
 William Harlow House, built in 1678, parti}' of the 
 material of the old fort on Burial Hill. 
 
 The Winslow House on North Street is a good example 
 of the colonial stvle of architecture. It was built about 
 1754 by Edward AVinslow, who was a great grandson of 
 Governor Winslow of the colony. He purchased the 
 land from Consider, a grandson of John Howland, who 
 was one of the Mayflower passengers. It is now owned 
 and occupied by Rev. George W. Briggs, of Cambridge, 
 fis a summer residence. 
 
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 1. Plyuioiitli Rock. 
 
 2. The Can()[)y over tlie Rock. 
 
 3. Tlie MiiyHower in Plyiiiontli Harbor, from [)ainting 
 by W. F. HallJall, PilgTini Hall. 
 
 4. The Canopy and Cole's Hill ; first burial place of 
 the Pilgrims. 
 
 o. The Harl)or, as seen from Cole's Hill. 
 
 G. Leyden Street, first street laid out in Xew England. 
 
 7. Site of the Common House, Leyden Street, fiist 
 house erected by the Pilgrims. 
 
 8. Leyden Street in 1622, showing first or Couimon 
 House, Gov. Bradford's House, and the buildings assigned 
 to Brown, CTOodtnan, <45rewster, Billington, All^^rton, Cooke 
 and Winsluw. 
 
 9. Town Square, showing' Site of First Church, Town 
 House, formerly the Old Colonial Court House, built in 
 1749, and Odd Fellows' Block, occupying the site of Gov. 
 Bradford's House. 
 
 10. Old Burial Hill, froiu the Town Square entrance. 
 
 11. Site of the Watch Tower, Burial Hill, erected in 
 
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 r\. ^. L»U1 LFCtlllV, Plymouth, Hass. 
 
1643. View also shows the lot of Rev. Adoniram Jiidson, 
 the celebrated missionarv to Bmniah. 
 
 12. Site of the Old Fort, Burial Hill, built in 102 1 as a 
 defense against the Indians, and also used as a place of 
 worship. 
 
 13. The Old Fort and First :\I<^etino- House. Burial Hill. 
 
 14. Gov. Bradford's INfonunient, Burial Hill, shoeing 
 also the graves ol his family. 
 
 15. Grave of Edward Grny, IGSl: John Howland, 1G72. 
 
 16. Mum Street. 
 
 17. 
 
 IS. 
 
 19. 
 Plynio 
 
 20. 
 
 21. 
 
 22. 
 famous 
 smalle 
 
 23. 
 of the 
 portrai 
 
 24. 
 
 25. 
 
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 Court Street. 
 
 Court Street, view North from Shirley Square. 
 
 Court Street, view South from Pilgrim Hall. 
 
 County Court House, where the early records of 
 nth Colony are kept. 
 
 County Prison, Russell Street. 
 
 Pilgrim Hall. 
 
 Interior of Pilgiim Hall, showing Charles Lticy's 
 5 painting of the Departure from Delft-Haven; also, 
 r pictures and relics. 
 
 Interior of Pilgrim Hall, showing Sargent's painting- 
 Landing, and Weir's Emltarkation; also, relics and 
 ts. 
 
 Landing of the Pilgrims, {)ainting by Sargent. 
 
 The Departure from Delft Haven, painting by 
 
 S. Burbank, 
 
 Pilgrim Bookstore, 
 
 Plymouth. Mass. 
 
Charles Lncy. 
 
 26. Embarkation of the Pilgrims, painting by Weir. 
 
 27. Gov. Carver's Chair; Ancient Spinning Wheel. 
 
 28. Ehler Brewster's Chair; Cradle of Peregrine White, 
 the first Pilgrim bal)y. 
 
 29. Svvord of Myles Standish; Iron Pot and Pewter 
 Platter, brought V>y Standish in the Mayflower; Table 
 owned by Gov. Edward Winslow. 
 
 30. Samoset House, side view. 
 
 31. Samoset House, front view, 
 
 32. Ciishmaii Street. 
 
 33. National Monument to the Forefathers. 
 '80. Statue of Freedom, National Monument. 
 
 81. Statue of Law, National Monument. 
 
 82. Statue of Education, National Monument. 
 
 83. Statue of Morality, National Monument. 
 
 86. Treaty with Massasoit, alto-relief on National 
 Monument. 
 
 87. Landing of the Pilgrims, alto-relief on National 
 Monument. 
 
 34. Old Colony Park. 
 
 36. Clark's Island, where the Pilgrims spent their first 
 Sabbath in Plymouth. 
 
 37. Pulpit Rock, Clark's Island, from which the first 
 sermon was preached. 
 
 38. The Gurnet, headland at entrance of Harbor. 
 
 39. Plymouth Beach, — view along the outside. 
 
 40. The Pavilion, Plymouth Beach. 
 
 4L Plymouth Harbor, inside the Beach. 
 
 42. View along the Docks. 
 
 43. Along Shore from Atwood's Wharf. 
 
 44. North Street. 
 
 46. Memorial Methodist Church. 
 
 47. Plymouth Cordage Works. 
 
 48. Town Brook, into which flow the ''many delicate 
 s})riugs"' mentioned by the Pilgrims. 
 
 49. Almshouse Pond. 
 
 50. The Town, — birds'-eye view from Cannon Hill. 
 
 A. S. Burbank, "riTm^Xn^si 
 
51. Town Brook above Plymouth Mills. 
 
 52. Town Brook below Standisli Mills. 
 
 53. Standisli Mills, from Deep Water Bridge. 
 
 54. Deep Water Bridge. 
 
 55. Outlet Billington Sea, so called from Francis 
 Billington, one of tlie Pilgrims wlio discovered it. 
 
 56. South Pond. 
 
 57. AVooded Point, Boot Pond. 
 
 58. Boot Pond— picturesque view with rocky foreground. 
 
 60. Morton Park, entrance. 
 
 61. Little Pond, Morton Park. 
 
 63. Eel lliver. 
 
 64. Manomet Bluffs. 
 
 65. Rocky Shore, Manomet. 
 
 66. Manomet House, front view. 
 
 67. Manomet House, side view. 
 70. Surf view. 
 
 72. Old Garrison House, Pembroke, 1628, the oldest 
 house in New England. 
 
 73. Plymouth in 1622, — a combination picture, showing 
 Leyden Street, the Old Fort, Landing from the Shallop, 
 Plymouth Rock, and the ship Mayflower. 
 
 74. Gov. Bradford's House in 1621. 
 
 75. Billington Sea and Island. 
 
 76. View near Little Pond, Morton Park. 
 
 77. Brook Road, Morton Park. 
 
 78. The Frost Cake, view from the Bridge, Morton Park, 
 70. Bill Holmes' Dam, Morton Park. 
 
 84. The Sa(piish. 
 
 88. (irave of Dr. Francis LeBaron, 1704, Burial Hill, 
 
 90. Market Street, view from foot of Spring Hill. 
 
 01. View along the Wharves from Stephen's Point. 
 
 92. Off Beach Point,— Captain's Hill in the distance, 
 • 93. Marine View from Beach Point. 
 
 94. Picturesque View from Town Brook. 
 
 05. ( lldest House in Plymouth, the Doten House, built 
 by William Harlow, 1660. 
 
 96. Th^ Crow House, built by William Crow, 1664. 
 
 A^ Rlirhfink f'''2'^'"7 Bookstore, 
 
97. The Ilovvlaud House, l.iiilt hy Jacob Mitdiell, 1GG6. 
 
 98. William Harlow House, built of timber IVom the 
 01(1 Burial Hill Fort by Williaiu Harlow, 1677. 
 
 99. Homestead of Gen. John Wiuslow, 1726. 
 
 100. The Town House, formerly the Old Colonial 
 House, built in' 1749. 
 
 101. The Winslow House, built in 1754 by Edward 
 Wiuslow. 
 
 10.2. Cole's Blacksmith 8hop, 1684. 
 
 103. Leach House, 1679. 
 
 104. Statue of Myles Standisli. 
 
 105. Myles Standish Monument. 
 
 106. .Standish House, Duxbury, built by son of Myles 
 Standish, 1666. 
 
 107. Captain's Hill, Duxbury, the home of Myles Stan- 
 dish, showing Standish House and Monument. 
 
 108. Grave of Daniel AVebster, INIarshtield. 
 
 109. Winslow House, Marshfield, built about 1700 
 
 110. Fireplace and Secret Closet in Chamber of Win- 
 slow House, Marshfield. 
 
 111. Doorway of Winslow House, Marshfield. 
 
 112. John Alden House, Duxbury, 1653. 
 
 113. Bradford House, Kingston, 1675. 
 
 114. Hotel Pilgrim. 
 
 115. View North from Hotel Pilgrim. 
 
 116. View South from Manter's Point, — Hotel Pilgrim, 
 Warren's Cove. 
 
 117. View Nortli from Manter's I'oint, — mouth of Fel 
 River. 
 
 118. The Bridge, Eel River. 
 
 125. Priscilla, from painting by Geo. H. Boughton. 
 
 126. Pilgrim lilxiles, from painting by Boughton. 
 
 127. Pilgrims going to Church, from painting by 
 Boughton. 
 
 128. Two Farewells, from painting by Boughton. 
 
 129. Return of the Mayflower, painting by Boughton. 
 
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