Plymouth Plantation and Mayflower – A Chance to Experience Pilgrim Life
Plimoth Plantation and the Mayflower II ship are illuminating exhibits on a major event in early American history. Both are places to stir the imagination and entertain your knowledge cells. At the Mayflower II youll discover first-hand all about the voyage the pilgrims endured, and then barely a few miles away youll experience the early and struggling years of settlement.
Plimoth Plantation and the Mayflower are both located in Plymouth, Massachusetts – a small city 40 miles south of Boston. Authentic yet entertaining the two attractions are links to our past and the 102 passengers that survived the journey across the stormy Atlantic seas.
The Mayflower voyage of 1620 took 66 days after leaving Plymouth, England on September 6, and anchoring in present day Provincetown harbor in Cape Cod on November 11, 1620. Only one individual did not survive the journey. Though the pilgrims had endured much hardship on the voyage the worst was yet to come.
Deciding Cape Cod was not a suitable place for a settlement, and forced north because of the weather and shoals south of Cape...