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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1628 | Maypole at Mount Wollaston (Mass) | Miles Standish commanded an expedition against Thomas Morton's fur-trading post. Plymouth officials feared Morton's men were trading guns with Indians. | Pilgrims, Hawthorne, Standish, maypole, Indian" | |
| 1858 | Longfellow, "The Courtship of Miles Standish" | Longfellow's poem rivaled Thanksgiving in American memory and helped perpetuate the mystique of the spinning wheel. See The Age of Homespun, page 27. | poetry, pilgrims" plymouth |