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(‘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’)
“you idiots!”
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(and 2 years later…)
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(the ‘top portion’ (the fragment now visible) 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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