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Plymouth

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Town and county seat of Plymouth County, in eastern Massachusetts, situated on Cape Cod about 55 km/34 mi southeast of Boston; population (2000 est) 7,700. It is surrounded by a larger urban area, with a population of around 50,000. Founded by the Pilgrims , who arrived in the Mayflower in 1620, it was the first settlement by Europeans in New England. Of great cultural significance to the US people, Plymouth attracts over 1 million tourists every year. Plymouth Rock is said to be where the Pilgrims landed. The National Monument to the Forefathers (1889), at 25 m/82 ft tall, is the tallest granite monument in the USA. ‘Plimoth Plantation’, an open-air museum, contains a reconstruction of the Pilgrim village of 1627, the Wampanoag American Indian settlement, and the Mayflower II , a recreation of the original ship, which was built in Brixham in England in 1956 and sailed across the Atlantic in 1957. Early industries included fishing, trading, and whaling. Mills and rope works were set up…
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From Brewer's Britain and Ireland
‘mouth of the River Plym’, PLYM + OE mutha ‘mouth’. A seaport, city and unitary authority at the southwestern corner of Devon, at the mouth of the River Plym, on the eastern side of the HAMOAZE , about 60 km (37 miles) southwest of Exeter. Its original English name was Sutton (‘southern village’), …
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Seaport and administrative centre of Plymouth City unitary authority in southwest England, at the mouth of the river Plym, 179 km/112 mi southwest of Bristol; population (2001) 240,700. The city's focus is based around its three harbours, and industries include marine and machine tool manufacture…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
owes its importance to the magnificent estuary into which drain the rivers Plym and Tamar. The original settlement was at Sutton, the name Plymouth being attached to the harbour. Sutton Prior was a borough in the 13th cent. and Plymouth developed from a small fishing village. By *Leland's time, in…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Name of counties in two states of the U.S. See tables at iowa , massachusetts . Town, Litchfield co., NW Connecticut, N of Waterbury; pop. (2000c) 11,634; settled 1728; incorp. 1795. City, county seat of Marshall co., N Indiana, 23 mi. (37 km.) S of South Bend; pop. (2000c) 9840; dairy products, …
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Town and county seat of Plymouth County, in eastern Massachusetts, situated on Cape Cod about 55 km/34 mi southeast of Boston; population (2000 est) 7,700. It is surrounded by a larger urban area, with a population of around 50,000. Founded by the Pilgrims , who arrived in the Mayflower in 1620, it…
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Full text Article Plymouth Rock

From Encyclopedia of American Studies
Plymouth Rock. c.1909. Prints and Photographs...
The large granite rock known as Plymouth Rock in the harbor of Plymouth, Massachusetts, is purported to be the site where the Mayflower Pilgrims first landed in North America on December 11, 1620. Plymouth Rock's reputation was largely built during the nineteenth century, fueled by local New England…
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Full text Article Plymouth Colony

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
settlement made by the Pilgrims on the coast of Massachusetts in 1620. Previous attempts at colonization in America (1606, 1607–8) by the Plymouth Company, chartered in 1606 along with the London Company (see Virginia Company ), were unsuccessful and resulted in the company's inactivation for a…
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Full text Article Plymouth Brethren

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Fundamentalist Christian Protestant sect characterized by extreme simplicity of belief, founded in Dublin in about 1827 by the Reverend John Nelson Darby (1800–1882). The Plymouth Brethren have no ordained priesthood, affirming the ministry of all believers, and maintain no church buildings. They…
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1 Uninc. town (1990 pop. 45,608), seat of Plymouth co., SE Mass., on Plymouth Bay; founded 1620. Diverse light manufacturing is important to the economy. The town, with summer resort facilities and major historic attractions, has a large tourist industry. Its harbor, now used by fishing boats and…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
group of Christian believers originating in the early 19th cent. in Ireland and spreading from there to the Continent (especially Switzerland), the British dominions, and the United States. One of their notable leaders was John Nelson Darby ; the members are sometimes known as Darbyites. They refer…
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