Plymouth, MA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

"America's Hometown," little PLYMOUTH , on the south shore of Massachusetts Bay forty miles south of Boston, is given over to commemorating, in various degrees of taste, the landing here of the 102 Pilgrims in December 1620. A solemn pseudo-Greek temple by the sea encloses the nondescript Plymouth Rock , where the Pilgrims are said to have touched land; as they had already spent two months on Cape Cod, and there are no contemporary references to the rock, it is of symbolic importance only. Two worthier memorials make no claim to authenticity, but meticulously reproduce the experience of the … more »