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The Mayflower made its first landfall at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts on the 11th November 1620 after 66 days at sea.
There the Mayflower Compact, the first democratic document written in America, was composed and signed.
"And on the …
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Pilgrims
Who Sailed from Here, the Barbican, Plymouth
In 1620 in the Mayflower, 180 tons
Christopher Jones, Master
John Alden, cooper of Harwich, the first to step ashore · John Carver, merchant of Doncaster, the first Governor &m…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BON_plymouth-raf-monument-a-war-memorial_England.html
Royal Air Force
Commonwealth & Allied Air Forces
1939 - 1945
Tribute
To All Men and Women of Great Britain
Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand
Rhodesia and South Africa.
Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark,
France, Greece, The Netherlands.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BOM_norringtons-water-fountain_England.html
Presented to the
Town of Plymouth by
Charles Norrington
Of Abbotsfield
In Memory of His Wife
Marianne Norrington
1891
"Thirsty And Ye Gave Me Drink"
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BOL_the-laboratory-on-the-hoe_England.html
The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR)
The CPR was designed by Alister Hardy, a fisheries biologist, in the late-1920s. The device is towed off the back of a ship in order to record variations in the abundance and distribution of plankton. Filter…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BOK_the-laboratory-on-the-hoe_England.html
The Marine Biological Association (MBA)
The MBA is a research charity with a worldwide membership. Founded in 1884, the MBA has established itself as a leading marine biological research organisation, contributing to the work of twelve Nobel Priz…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BOJ_royal-marines-memorial-a-war-memorial_England.html
"So He Passed
Over and All
The Trumpets
Sounded For
Him On The
Other Side."
( north side )
Erected by
The Plymouth Division
Royal Marines
(Past, Present and Relatives)
To the Memory of
Their Comrades
Who Fell
In the Great…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BOI_plymouth-royal-citadel_England.html
English Heritage
Plymouth Royal Citadel
A bastioned artillery fortress
Construction of the Royal Citadel, designed by King Charles II's (r. 1660-85) engineer Sir Bernard de Gomme, began in 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Its guns and …
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The Aquarium of the Marine Biological Association
Until 1998, the ground floor of the Citadel Hill Laboratory was the Plymouth Aquarium. Seawater was pumped to the Aquarium from the Laboratory's underground reservoirs by gas engines. In more rec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BOG_1815-2015_England.html
Napoleon, Emperor of the French, was detained on HMS Bellerophon in Plymouth Sound from 26 July to 4 August 1815. Large crowds came to catch a glimpse of him.
These two blocks of granite are from Dartmoor Prison, where thousands of French prison…