Cape Cod Historic Places,
Plymouth Home Of the Pilgrims
Plymouth Home Of the Pilgrims
Cape Cod History, Plymouth
In 1858 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow captured every reader’s imagination when he
wrote a poignant love story about two passengers on the ship Mayflower.
Longfellow's “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” became required reading in every
classroom when Longfellow quoted the words spoken by Priscilla Mullins to 23-year
old John Alden, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”
To get the full flavor of this love story and the young Alden family’s colonial
experience you can explore the farms, the windmills, and the grist mills in
settlements where Pilgrims like the Aldens first built their colonial houses, the
villages of Cape Cod.
For your first stop head for the town of Plymouth Massachusetts where in November
of 1620 the first English settlers came ashore.
You will find ample parking at the Plimoth Plantation, a re-created 1627 village
and living history museum where period rooms and costumed guides reveal the
stark days of the pilgrims who would not have survived their first winter but for help
from the Native Americans.
As it was, only half the number of the religious separatists newly arrived from
England did survive the first year but they soon built the village of Sandwich to the
south and Duxbury to the north, towns named after towns in England. Here they
would build their wood-frame homes so well that some, like the home of John Alden,
still stand.
In 1858 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow captured every reader’s imagination when he
wrote a poignant love story about two passengers on the ship Mayflower.
Longfellow's “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” became required reading in every
classroom when Longfellow quoted the words spoken by Priscilla Mullins to 23-year
old John Alden, “Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?”
To get the full flavor of this love story and the young Alden family’s colonial
experience you can explore the farms, the windmills, and the grist mills in
settlements where Pilgrims like the Aldens first built their colonial houses, the
villages of Cape Cod.
For your first stop head for the town of Plymouth Massachusetts where in November
of 1620 the first English settlers came ashore.
You will find ample parking at the Plimoth Plantation, a re-created 1627 village
and living history museum where period rooms and costumed guides reveal the
stark days of the pilgrims who would not have survived their first winter but for help
from the Native Americans.
As it was, only half the number of the religious separatists newly arrived from
England did survive the first year but they soon built the village of Sandwich to the
south and Duxbury to the north, towns named after towns in England. Here they
would build their wood-frame homes so well that some, like the home of John Alden,
still stand.
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Cape Cod Historic Places, Plymouth Home Of the Pilgrims
Cape Cod Historic Places include Plymouth MA,
where the Pilgrims first built their homes.
Plimoth Plantation, a re-created 1627 village and
living history museum offers period rooms and
costumed guides that reveal the stark first winters
of the pilgrims.
where the Pilgrims first built their homes.
Plimoth Plantation, a re-created 1627 village and
living history museum offers period rooms and
costumed guides that reveal the stark first winters
of the pilgrims.
Cape Cod Historic
Places, Hoxie House
Sandwich
Places, Hoxie House
Sandwich
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Getting to Cape Cod: Boston is the nearest large city to Cape Cod.
Air service reaches Boston from other major hubs and cities. Rental cars are available at the airport.
From Boston take Route 93 to Route 3 and after 60 miles, cross the Cape Cod Canal. Continue on
Route 6 for all locations on Cape Cod or go to Route 6A for the slower scenic route through the villages.
Routes 6 and 6A join in Orleans and go to the tip of Cape Cod.
Several small commuter airlines serve Hyannis Airport and Provincetown Airport on Cape Cod from
Boston, Providence, and New Bedford. Cape Air, US Airways Express, and Linear Air (Hanscom Field
Bedford Ma)
Bus service is available from Boston and from Logan Airport. Plymouth and Brockton, Logan Direct
serves Hyannis
Bonanza Bus Lines serves Bourne, Falmouth, and the Wood's Hole ferry from Logan Airport
Passenger Boats leave daily from Boston to the tip of Cape Cod (May -September) at Provincetown.
Bicycles can go aboard.
A fast cat boat and a slower conventional passenger boat make trips from Boston. Bicycles permitted
A passenger boat makes a daily run from Plymouth, MA to Provincetown.
Air service reaches Boston from other major hubs and cities. Rental cars are available at the airport.
From Boston take Route 93 to Route 3 and after 60 miles, cross the Cape Cod Canal. Continue on
Route 6 for all locations on Cape Cod or go to Route 6A for the slower scenic route through the villages.
Routes 6 and 6A join in Orleans and go to the tip of Cape Cod.
Several small commuter airlines serve Hyannis Airport and Provincetown Airport on Cape Cod from
Boston, Providence, and New Bedford. Cape Air, US Airways Express, and Linear Air (Hanscom Field
Bedford Ma)
Bus service is available from Boston and from Logan Airport. Plymouth and Brockton, Logan Direct
serves Hyannis
Bonanza Bus Lines serves Bourne, Falmouth, and the Wood's Hole ferry from Logan Airport
Passenger Boats leave daily from Boston to the tip of Cape Cod (May -September) at Provincetown.
Bicycles can go aboard.
A fast cat boat and a slower conventional passenger boat make trips from Boston. Bicycles permitted
A passenger boat makes a daily run from Plymouth, MA to Provincetown.
Where Is Cape Cod
Fifteen large towns and many small villages make up Cape Cod.
which includes Falmouth and Mashpee.
Hyannis Airport
Fifteen large towns and many small villages make up Cape Cod.
- Upper Cape:
which includes Falmouth and Mashpee.
- Mid Cape
Hyannis Airport
- Lower Cape
- Outer Cape
