USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620 and the colonists began building their town.

Detailed explanation-2: -After a tortuous 66-day voyage from England, the Pilgrims reached the mainland of America 400 years ago today, Nov. 11. But they didn’t land at Plymouth Rock, as the popular myth alleges. They first anchored in Provincetown Harbor.

Detailed explanation-3: -On December 21, 1620, the Pilgrims came ashore at Plymouth. After 66 days at sea and several weeks docked in Provincetown Harbor while the passengers explored Cape Cod, Mayflower finally docked in Plymouth on December 18th.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plymouth Rock consists of Dedham granite some 600 million years old that was deposited by glacial activity on the beach at Plymouth about 20, 000 years ago. The Pilgrims-who made their first North American landfall on Cape Cod, not at Plymouth-did not mention any rocks in the earliest accounts of Plymouth colony.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Pilgrims, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, named after the final departure port of Plymouth, Devon.