It was split in two and cemented back together. And while it has been battered by time, it continues to endure. By the 1770s, just a few years after Faunce made his declaration, Plymouth Rock had already become a tangible monument to freedom. read more
Plymouth Rock is geologically classified as a Dedham Granite boulder and a glacial erratic. The two most significant primary sources on the founding of Plymouth Colony are Edward Winslow's Mourt's Relation and Bradford's history Of Plymouth Plantation, and neither refers to Plymouth Rock. read more