Plymouth
National Historic Landmark District · Plymouth, Massachusetts
The town where the Mayflower's passengers settled in the winter of 1620, on ground the Wampanoag had farmed and called Patuxet until an epidemic emptied it three years earlier. What survives is a real harbour town with a burial hill above it, a 1957 seagoing replica of the ship, a living-history museum three miles south with a seventeenth-century English village and a Wampanoag homesite staffed by Native people — and a rock. THE ROCK IS SMALL, IT SITS IN A PIT UNDER A STONE PORTICO, AND IT DISAPPOINTS ALMOST EVERYONE.
Water Street and the waterfront, Plymouth, Massachusetts, 02360, United States
The town, Plymouth Rock and Burial Hill are FREE and open at all hours. Plimoth Patuxet Museums and Mayflower II are ticketed, run by the same organisation, and are SEASONAL — generally spring to late November and closed through the winter. A combination ticket covers both. Plimoth Patuxet is three miles south of the waterfront.