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Plymouth MA Community Profile & History
Plymouth, Massachusetts is a coastal community in southeastern Massachusetts. It is the seat of Plymouth County, and has the largest area of any town in the Commonwealth. Perhaps best known as the landing site of the Mayflower, which carried the Pilgrims to the shores of North America in 1620, the community offers an unparalleled assortment of historical sites, gorgeous natural scenery, a thriving tourist economy and easy accessibility to Boston, Cape Cod and all of New England's major cities.
Founded in 1620, Plymouth is the oldest municipality in New England and one of the oldest in the United States. It also is the oldest continually inhabited English settlement in the modern United States. The town has served as the location of several prominent events, the most notable being the first Thanksgiving feast. The town also served as the capital of Plymouth Colony from its founding in 1620 until the colony's dissolution in 1691.
Originally known as "Separatists," the colony's earliest settlers first gained notoriety in the late 16th century for renouncing membership in the Church of England, which was legally compulsory at the time. Unlike conforming Puritan groups who maintained their membership in and allegiance to the Church of England, Separatists held that their differences with the Church of England were irreconcilable and that their worship should be organized independently of the trappings, traditions and organization of a central state church. In order to escape religious persecution and violence, the Separatists fled England for the Dutch city of Leyden in 1609. By 1617, faced with persistent unemployment and desiring to establish a colony of their own, the Separatists made plans to set sail for North America, and the Mayflower departed with 102 passengers in September of 1620. After a difficult voyage, the ship made landfall at what is now Provincetown Harbor in November; within a month, an exploratory party had selected a permanent settlement at "Plimoth." Reduced to just 47 people by March of 1621, having weathered a particularly harsh winter and a number of diseases contracted aboard the ship, these first settlers were dubbed "Pilgrims" in a later written account of the voyage by founding Governor William Bradford.
The site of the original 1620 settlement is now a portion of the Downtown/Harbor District. The South Shore's accessibility to the Boston metropolitan area has greatly influenced the growth rates of its communities in recent decades. Desirable land prices, tax rates and residential amenities have further stimulated growth, and the town's population mushroomed from 1970 to 1990. Now a major tourist destination and economic center for the South Shore region, the town is committed to controlling its residential growth while welcoming industrial and commercial expansion.
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