November 11, 1620

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7:03a, 11/11/20
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400 years to the day that the Pilgrims landed in New England.

"America. America, God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."
“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble."

-Matthew 6:34
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8:28a, 11/11/20
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What a terrible time of the year to land in Massachusetts. I haven't really thought of that before!
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3:47p, 11/11/20
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In large part, this is why approximately half of the Pilgrims died the first winter in Massachusetts.
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In reply to Ranch Dressing • 7:01a, 11/12/20
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Wow a lot has happened in just 400 years when you think about it. That's not really that much time in the grand scheme of things.
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9:01a, 11/12/20
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Okay tried posting this a few times may have to breakout the photos into separate posts.

So the UK subsidiary of my company built and launched a solar powered Mayflower II robotic boat that was supposed to duplicate the journey of the original Mayflower from Plymouth to Plymouth. It got some international press and was supposed to arrive yesterday but haven't heard if it arrived.

I was over there last year and took some history related photographs that ya'll might find interesting in the next few posts.

Plymouth harbor:

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9:41a, 11/12/20
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Building the Pilgrim women and girls lived in.
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9:41a, 11/12/20
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The building that the Pilgrim men and boy's lived in while in Plymouth. It was built in the 1500s as a monastery. Henry VIII seized it during the reformation. It was a boarding house when the Pilgrim's were here and it became a gin distillery in 1793. Most of the gin consumed by the RN has been distilled here including a Navy version of higher alcohol content to make sure that if it leaked on the black powder it did not ruin it. This front of the building was rebuilt after the war because the front was destroyed in 1940 by German bombing. Apparently several captains in the RN got in trouble for breaking radio silence to enquire about the damage to the distillery after they heard about it. The workmanship of the 1500s structure is way better than the post-war structure.

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9:42a, 11/12/20
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The "tourist trap" Mayflower Steps be restored for the 400th. Traditional site of where the Pilgrim's boarded the Mayflower.
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9:43a, 11/12/20
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Actual location of the Mayflower Steps are under the women's restroom of this pub.
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9:45a, 11/12/20
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A shot from the "Mayflower Steps" to the Navy Inn (Actual site). The building on the extreme left is the Mayflower Museum.
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9:45a, 11/12/20
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50 yards to the left of the "Mayflower Steps" is the departure point for the Roanoke Expedition.
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In reply to Ranch Dressing • 1:47p, 11/12/20
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Ranch Dressing said:
400 years to the day that the Pilgrims landed in New England.

"America. America, God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."
Until cancelled by the "woke" culture.
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In reply to Ranch Dressing • 4:08p, 12/5/20
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bunch of johnny-come-latelys those Pilgrims.

My blood kin arrived in 1609, but further south in Jamestown, Virginia. We had no intention of freezing our balls off in New England.
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In reply to Waltonloads08 • 12:30p, 12/6/20
Waltonloads08 said:
bunch of johnny-come-latelys those Pilgrims.

My blood kin arrived in 1609, but further south in Jamestown, Virginia. We had no intention of freezing our balls off in New England.

They preferred to live in a hot, humid malarial swamp?

I was stationed at Fort Eustis, VA for three years, a few miles down the James River from Jamestown. There's a marker on post at a spot on the river road, noting that was where the original Jamestown colonists, having given up and set sail back down river toward the ocean and England, encountered the resupply expedition arriving from England.
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In reply to Waltonloads08 • 4:12p, 12/6/20
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Well neither did the Pilgrims, they were aiming for Virginia but got blown off course by the fall storms.
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8:48a, 12/7/20
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Any truth to the story that this old barn was built from the scrapped-out Mayflower?

http://naturalhomes.org/mayflower-barn.htm

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On the edge of the Chiltern hills in the South Buckinghamshire countryside in the small village of Jordans you will find the Mayflower Barn standing in a farm that dates back to the late Middle Ages. Its history begins in 1618 when Thomas Russell bought it. Part of the present farmhouse was already there and Thomas Russell added to it in 1624, when he built a substantial new barn with timbers from a ship, thought to be the Mayflower.

Tried to post the photo, not working
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8:52a, 12/7/20
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May have answered my own question

http://mayflowerhistory.com/end-of-the-mayflower

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The claim, first originating from J. Rendel Harris' book The Finding of the Mayflower (1920), that the Mayflower ended up as a barn in Jordans, England, is now widely discredited as being a figment of an overzealous imagination on the tercentenary anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage, combined with a tainted oral history. None of the evidence has withstood subsequent investigation.

Regardless of the lack of evidence for its authenticity, it has been featured in National Geographic on several occasions and is a tourist destination. It is important to realize that in 1624, when the ship was scrapped, it was not at all famous, and nobody would have thought twice about letting it rot away.
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