Guide to Historic Plymouth: Localities and Objects of Interest

Localities and Objects of Interest
ILLUSTRATED
PLYMOUTH, MASS. Copyrighted, and Published By A. S. BURBANK
Copyright, 1920, by A. S. Burbank. Printed by the Memorial Press.
NATIONAL MONUMENT TO THE FOREFATHERS.
“The Pilgrim Fathers—where are they?
The waves that brought them o’er
Still roll in the bay, and throw their spray,
As they break along the shore.”
The introduction of visitors to Plymouth as they come by rail, is at Seaside, a station in the extreme north part of the town, at the dividing line between Kingston and Plymouth. As the cars slow up passengers see the beautiful panorama of Plymouth Harbor spread out before their eyes. At the near left, across the bay appears Captain’s Hill, so called from its being the home of Capt. Myles Standish, and on its crest is a monument in honor of the Pilgrim warrior, surmounted by his statue fourteen feet in height. Farther along is seen Rouse’s Hummock, the American terminus of the French Atlantic cable. The next prominent object is Clark’s Island, where the Pilgrims spent their first Sabbath in Plymouth. Next to this is the headland of Saquish, and beyond is the Garnet with its twin lighthouses. Opposite these the bold bluff of Manomet thrusts itself out into the bay, while nearer inland the long, thin ribbon of Plymouth Beach runs across the harbor, like an artificial breakwater, to arrest the waves of the ocean.
PLYMOUTH ROCK.
STANDISH HOUSE, BUILT BY SON OF MYLES STANDISH, 1666. CAPTAIN’S HILL, DUXBURY.