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The Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower, will be under sail on Cape Cod Bay for the first time in five years, ...
The Mayflower's 400th anniversary comes as the United States and many other countries face a reckoning on racism, with Native Americans retelling the history.
The Mayflower landed in November 1620, with 102 passengers and 30 crew members who were seeking religious freedom in what became Massachusetts. It was farther north than their planned destination ...
On December 18, 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Harbor. That was 399 years ago! Sorry readers, I got excited and didn’t want to wait until December 2020 to talk about this historic event ...
The Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620. Centuries later, the true story is being told. 400 years later, this Massachusetts town is grappling with the real history of the colony and its ...
BOSTON (CBS) -- There was a historic kickoff in Boston to commemorate an event that changed the world, the landing of the Mayflower in what is now Massachusetts. Next year marks the 400th ...
Between the Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, and Times Square, the US has its fair share of tourist traps. These crowded places are full of people with cameras, craning to get the best photo or view of ...
After dropping off the Pilgrims in their non-creatively-named place, mostly to die, the Mayflower sailed on back to England, getting back in about half the time and landing in May of 1621.
So, did the Mayflower land on Plymouth Rock? Thomas Faunce had almost zero reason to lie. On the other hand, none of the surviving primary sources mention landing on a rock. We just don’t know.
It’s been 400 years since the Mayflower arrived in Provincetown Harbor, and local and international organizations spent a decade planning months of quadricentennial commemorative events, many of ...
The commonly told version of the 1620 Mayflower landing is that the Pilgrims were the first Europeans to step onto the shores of Massachusetts.
Margaret Wheaton of Lake Alfred discovered an ancestor — one of 102 people onboard — who sailed on the Mayflower.