Tides & Towns
South Shore · MA

Plymouth

America's Hometown, where the Pilgrims came ashore.

Population
61,217 (2020 census)
Pilgrims land
December 21, 1620
Pilgrim Hall
Oldest U.S. museum, 1824

Then

  1. Before 1620

    The Wampanoag village of Patuxet stands here.

  2. 1620

    After anchoring at Provincetown, the Pilgrims find Plymouth Harbor on December 17 and go ashore on December 21.

  3. 1621

    Tisquantum (Squanto) helps the colony survive, and after a good harvest the Pilgrims and Wampanoag men share a thanksgiving.

  4. 1824

    Pilgrim Hall Museum opens, the oldest continuously operating museum in the country.

  5. 1957

    The replica Mayflower II sails from England to Plymouth.

Now

Plymouth Rock sits under a granite portico, though there is no evidence the Pilgrims landed on it. Plimoth Patuxet's living history museum and the Mayflower II draw visitors, and Duxbury and Brant Rock lie up the shore.

3 tide stations around Plymouth

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