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Years Image Event Description Keywords
1608   Separatists go to Holland   pilgrims, Plymouth, settlement
1620   English Separatists found Plymouth   Plymouth
1622   Mourt's Relation published in London   pilgrims, Bradford, Plymouth
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"
1629   Plymouth colonists estabish a trading post at Cushnoc on the Kennebec River in Maine. Other traders were active nearer the coast. Plymouth, Indians, settlement
1769   Forefather's Day celebrated by Plymouth's Old Colony Club    
1820   Daniel Webster speaks at Plymouth bicentennial    
1824   Pilgrim Hall museum opened in Plymouth    
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
1900   Plymouth Blanket Society formed to make "rose blankets"    

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