History
Plymouth is, by a wide margin, the oldest English town in New England — settled in December 1620 by the Pilgrims of the Mayflower, three weeks after their first landfall at the tip of Cape Cod. The cove they chose for the colony, Plymouth Harbor, is still the working center of town: a fishing fleet, a sailing school, and the full-scale reproduction Mayflower II all share the waterfront with Plymouth Rock. The town's enduring identity as the symbolic birthplace of New England has been in continuous public ceremony for four hundred years and counting.