AF-761: A History of Plymouth Rock | Ancestral Findings Podcast

Everyone who has been through an American public school knows the story of Plymouth Rock, the legendary first piece of dry land the Pilgrims stepped on after their long and arduous Mayflower journey across the Atlantic. As the place where our first English immigrants encountered and stood on the area that would become part of New England, the rock is a famous artifact on its own. You can even see it today in Plymouth, as it is a major tourist attraction for the town. But, the Mayflower landed in 1620. After 403 years, how can we be sure that the rock on display in Plymouth is the actual one upon which the Pilgrims first stood?

Here's what you need to know about the history of Plymouth Rock.

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[Ancestralfindings]

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[Scrapper.]

Aw bless, the colonies love their wee rock. Respect from Ireland.

[paulettemayo]

My Dad took us there. My daughter was very little at the time. She said " grampa that's a damn big rock." My mom's family came over on the Mayflower 3. The 1st Howes to set land in the USA. The family cemetery is there in Dennis/ Barnstable.

[kevinr]

Being from Texas, I have never been up in that part of the country, but I hope to someday. The only problem is I love the wester US so much and want to see so many places in the west I feel like I may go east and be disappointed only to realized I spent all my money and time for no good reason and could have spent it out west. Lol!

[KenCrandall-otuv]

I remember seeing the rock about 60 years ago and it was broke in half and they used mortar to put it back together ! Looks like half of the original rock now !

[sirenloud]

Anybody else here doing research because of a YouTube short Tik-Tok real

[violetbennett]

I had three men and their families on the Mayflower., William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Richard Warren.

[renahamilton]

I am the ninth grade granddaughter of John olden and Priscilla Mullins.
This is on my mother's side of the family. Have pictures of John Alden and Priscilla mellon all the way on up. Marriages.
Birth and death all the way up to my mother and me.

[killahkyliee]

So because pilgrims stepped on it it’s special I bet tons of natives stood there while fishing or something I never heard of this rock

[johnbethea]

My mother's father's ancestors came over on the Mayflower..

[leowasescha]

How come it’s still visible if sea levels are rising?

[wildthings]

They landed on Provencetown Beach, Cape Cod FIRST. The rock is just a tourist attraction. I had two grandfathers on the Mayflower.

[Polygonfella]

That’s has to be the most famous rock in the world!

[bluechairreviews]

Anyone interested in learning more about plymouth rock and the pilgrims should check out our video! We see the rock in person! Just posted!

[jasonchev]

I thought that they first went ashore across the bay.

[motorhead]

Shouldn’t this be 10 feet under water by now, with all the catastrophic sea level raises

[ryanritchie]

A stamp? No one carved that with hand tools.

[John-wgxw]

Plymouth Rock is so small! Oldsmobile Rock is bigger.

[untitledproduction]

You have allies of Plymouth Rock don't really bother me the issue is is why they think we need a New England and we have a whole new world

[johnnyrodgers]

‘Global Warming’ was supposed to have covered this by now???