Today Plymouth is the site of a living museum recreating the seventeenth century Pilgrim lifestyle.
Plymouth, the first permanent European settlement in New England, was founded by the Pilgrims on December 21, 1620.
The Mayflower was first recorded in 1609.
Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims just seem to go together, but the truth is the Pilgrims never held a feast of thanksgiving.
The Pilgrims were Separatists who broke away from the Church of England to continue the work of the Reformation. One of the English Separatist congregations emigrated to Amsterdam in 1608 to escape religious persecution. The next year they moved to Leiden
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