![]() ![]() The Plymouth Antiquarian Society and Pilgrim Hall Museum co-host a free public tour series of Plymouth’s historic Burial Hill. Filmed live on Burial Hill, Plymouth on August 6, 2022. Davis’s neighborhood in a tour guided by historian Donna Curtin, Executive Director of Pilgrim Hall Museum. ![]() Davis created an equally fascinating historical world of old Plymouth in his memoirs and other works published in the late 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Davis's Neighborhood: The Wonderful World of Plymouth in the 19th Century from Pilgrim Hall Museum on Vimeo.įred Rogers invited kids into an unforgettable world of characters and local color in the famous PBS series, Mr. ![]() Your gift in any amount to Pilgrim Hall Museum’s Conservation Fund directly supports the conservation of our historical collections.Ĭonnecting with community at PHM! Enjoy videos highlighting community partners, public audiences, and local historians. It was carefully saved by generations of women in the family, some of whom added their own names to the historic heirloom. ![]() 1620, The NetherlandsĬherubs, canal bridges, buildings, and boats decorate this fine Dutch linen napkin, traditionally associated with Richard Warren of the Mayflower. A cloth backing now threatens to destroy the original vellum surface. This state document issued to Governor William Bradford provided Plymouth Colony with permanent status for the 1st time. Now we need a little help from our friends! Please celebrate our 200th birthday year (and Plymouth’s 400th anniversary) by helping to conserve some uniquely Plymouth artifacts.īradford-Warwick Patent, 1629/1630, England The Pilgrim Society is now 200 years old, and we’ve been preserving rare and evocative artifacts, documents, and artworks that tell the story of Plymouth Colony for centuries. Online Store Open- your purchase helps support Pilgrim Hall! We invite you to explore this history with us, and uncover a storehouse of resources on four centuries of Plymouth’s past. Exhibitions and programs trace the story of the interrelationship between the Wampanoag and the early colonial settlers from first encounters through the disastrous conflict of the 1670s, known as King Philip's War.įor 200 years, our organization has fostered knowledge and new understandings of Plymouth Colony’s beginnings - and never more so than today, during the extraordinary challenges of our own times. On display are William Bradford’s Bible, the only portrait of a Pilgrim (Edward Winslow) painted from life, the cradle brought by expectant mother Susanna White on the Mayflower, the great chair of the colony’s spiritual leader William Brewster, and the earliest sampler made in America, embroidered by Myles Standish’s daughter, Loara.Īt Pilgrim Hall Museum, our core focus encompasses the presence and experiences of the Wampanoag, "People of the Dawn," the Indigenous People who inhabited this area for over 13,000 years before the arrival of the English colonists and who are still here today. Pilgrim Hall Museum houses an unmatched collection of Pilgrim possessions, revealing the stories of ordinary yet determined men and women building new lives and homes for their families in a new world. As the nation’s oldest continuously operating public museum, we embrace a commitment to telling this story with historical accuracy, inclusion, and renewed recognition for histories that traditionally have been submerged, silenced, or erased. This dramatic saga of courage and perseverance has inspired generations as an iconic immigration experience and was the reason our organization was established in 1820. The Pilgrim Story - the hazardous Mayflower voyage, the 1620 landing, the fearful first winter, the First Thanksgiving at Plymouth - is one of America’s enduring founding narratives. ![]()
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