Cape Cod Bay - Plymouth, MA
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silverquill
N 41° 57.343 W 070° 39.951
19T E 361940 N 4646201
This unique relief map of Cape Cod Bay is located on Burial Hill which has a commanding view of Plymouth where the Pilgrims first landed in the Mayflower.
Waymark Code: WMDQZH
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2012
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It is easy to see, looking at this map, why the
Mayflower landed here within the protection of Cape Cod Bay. They selected this hill as the site for their first Fort and Meeting House. This also became the place for the first burials, and came to be known simply as Burial Hill.
There are two churches at the eastern base of the hill. One is First Parish, a stone building erected in 1899 as the fifth building on this site. Across the square is the Church of the Pilgrimage built in 1840 by a group who withdrew from the original congregation to preserve the Trinitarian Beliefs following the election in 1801 of James Kendall who led the parish into the Unitarian camp. The third building here is the historic 1749 Courthouse building, the oldest wooden courthouse and longest used municipal building in the United States.
Many noted people are interred on Burial Hill including:
Mary Allerton, Pilgrim, last surviving passenger
William Bradford, Pilgrim, Governor
John Howland, Pilgrim
Adoniram Judson, Christian missionary to Asia
Thomas Prence, Colonial Governor
Zabdiel Sampson, Congressman
James Warren, Patriot leader
Mercy Otis Warren, author
William Brewster (Pilgrim), Church Elder
Squanto, Patuxet guide and interpreter (unmarked grave)