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A Visit to The Plimoth Patuxet Plantation by Dr. RGST

While exploring the Plymouth Massachusetts area we visited the Plimoth Patuxet Plantation. It consists of Historic Patuxet and a re-created 17th Century English Colonial village.

Historic Patuxet is located on the Eel River and has a number of exhibits and demonstrations that are informative concerning Native peoples who had lived in the area for over 12,000 years. Historic Patuxet educates attenders about the Indigenous heritage of the Northeast from contemporary interpreters who discuss the 17th-century life-ways of a culture that continues to thrive today. [1]

Another exhibit of the Plantation is the re-created 17th Century English Village. The village demonstrates a small farming and maritime community built by the Pilgrims along the shore of Plymouth Harbor. Colonial life is demonstrated by the recreation of early Plymouth, completed with timber-framed houses equipped with reproductions of the types of objects that the Pilgrims owned, aromatic kitchen gardens, and heritage breeds livestock. Actors wearing historical clothing, play the role of inhabitants of Plymouth Colony. They will talk about historical events and lifeways as if they are happening in the present, and will express their hopes, fears and viewpoints. Modern-day guides assist in answering questions to better understand the 1600s. [2]

The unusual spelling of Plymouth in Plimoth Patuxet comes from an old-fashioned spelling used by Governor William Bradford inside his history of the colony, Of Plymouth Plantation. The Museum adopted the spelling to differentiate the Museum from the modern town of Plymouth. There were no rules for the spelling of English words in the early 17th century, and each writer did as he or she pleased, phonetically spelling the word as seemed fit – sometimes differently on a single page. Plymouth is spelled a number of ways in colonial documents, including Plymouth, Plimouth, Plymoth, and Plimoth. When Plimoth Plantation was founded, it was decided to use Governor Bradford's most common usage, Plimoth. [3]

[1] Plimoth Patuxet Museums. History in a New Light, https://plimoth.org
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.

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