By a natural harbor on the South Shore, Plymouth is the place where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower in 1620. You can grapple with this world-changing history at a multitude of attractions and landmarks, from living history at Plimoth Patuxet to the exceptional Pilgrim Hall Museum, where the personal possessions of several Pilgrims have …
In Litchfield County and close to the city of Bristol, Plymouth may be a minor town today but played a major role in the history of American manufacturing. What is now Plymouth was first settled in 1720 on land acquired from the Tunxis Indians. At the end of that century Eli Terry started a clockmaking …
At the head of Plymouth Sound, one of the world’s great natural harbours, Plymouth is a city with a rich maritime past. For hundreds of years this has been a naval base, and the cliffs along the harbour are armed with coastal forts and batteries from the 17th century to the Second World War. You …