Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1910 — Plyimooth Rock. [ARTICLE]

Plyimooth Rock.

Plymouth Rock has become an object of veneration lh the United States because of Its interesting historical associations. As is well known, it is the rock or ledge on which the pilgrims are believed to have landed when they first stepped from their boats in the harbor of* what Is now Plymouth, Mass. In 1775 part of the rock was removed to the vicinity of Pilgrim hall, but was afterward restored to Its original site, and is now under the stone canopy that surmounts the main rock on Water street. Charles Sumner said: “From the deck of the Mayflower, from the landing at Plymouth rock, to the Senate of the United States Is a mighty contrast, covering whole spaces of history hardly less than from the wolf that suckled Romulus and Remuß to that Roman Senate which on curule chairs swayed Italy and the world.”