Also located around the park are statues of important historical figures, including William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony who is buried in the nearby Burial Hill Cemetery, and Wampanoag leader ...

Fewer than 40 Pilgrims joined 65 nonbelievers, whom the Pilgrims dubbed “strangers,” in making the arduous journey to what would be called Plymouth Colony. Most Americans know that more than h ...

I had assumed, as many I have talked to, that New Years has been a holiday for time immemorial. However, we were wrong! The celebration of the dawn of a new year is relatively new, only being ...

Thanksgiving in the US is traditionally a time for family and food. American schoolchildren typically learn that the tradition dates back to the Pilgrims, who helped establish Plymouth Colony in ...

The Old Colony Memorial Athlete(s) of the Week are freshman Aubrey Pells and senior Sarah Kirrane from Plymouth South girls ...

The earliest known American sampler was made by Loara Standish of the Plymouth Colony about 1645. By the 1700s, samplers depicting alphabets and numerals were worked by young women to learn the basic ...

Almost all the information historians have about the event comes from a letter written by Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow in December 1621. He wrote of a harvest feast the Pilgrims shared ...

The Pilgrims found an empty village - a graveyard - known as Patuxet and set up Plymouth Colony. The village where tribe Wampanoag of Patuxet lived was left empty due to them being killed by an ...

The Old Colony Memorial Player(s) of the Week are Plymouth North girls basketball’s dynamic duo of sophomore Lila Connolly ...