Pilgrims of the Mayflower - Columbus, OH, USA
N 39° 57.705 W 082° 59.964
17S E 329230 N 4425426
A plaque honoring the pilgrims that came to America on the Mayflower is located at the north entrance to the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Waymark Code: WMEVEA
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 07/09/2012
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The plaque reads as follows:
The Mayflower
December 1620
This Tablet is Placed
To Honor The Pilgrims
Of The Mayflower
In An Age
Of Intolerance And Of
Bigotry, The Pilgrims
Of The Mayflower Laid
The Foundations Of This
Mighty Nation Wherein
Every Man, Through
Countless Ages, Shall
Have Liberty To Worship
God In His Own Way
Erected By The Society Of Mayflower
Descendents In The State Of Ohio
May 1933
The following information about the Mayflower and the pilgrims it carried to America is from Wikipedia:
"The Mayflower was the ship that transported English and Dutch Separatists and other adventurers referred to by the Separatists as "the Strangers" to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.
The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6/16, 1620, with 102 passengers and about 30 crew members aboard the small 100-foot ship. During the first month of the voyage, the seas were not severe, but by the second month the ship was being hit by strong North Atlantic winter gales, causing the ship to be badly shaken, with water leaking from structural damage. There were two deaths, but this was just a precursor of what happened after their arrival in Cape Cod, when almost half the company would die in the first winter.
On November 9/19, 1620, they sighted land, which was Cape Cod. After several days of trying to sail south to their planned destination of the Colony of Virginia, strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they anchored on November 11/21. The Mayflower Compact was signed that day.
The Mayflower has a famous place in American history as a symbol of early European colonization of the future United States.
The main record for the voyage of the Mayflower and the disposition of the Plymouth Colony comes from the letters and journal of William Bradford, who was a guiding force and later the governor of the colony."