The Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock

The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620 aboard the Mayflower were not the first Europeans to visit the Massachusetts coast but they were the first to establish a permanent settlement there. Before they settled at Plymouth, they spent five weeks exploring Cape Cod, where they discovered and stole a cache of corn buried by the Wampanoag people, corn they credited with saving them from starvation their first winter. The relationship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag, including the 1621 harvest celebration often called the first Thanksgiving, was cooperative at first but collapsed into brutal warfare by 1675.

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