Guide to Historic Plymouth: Localities and Objects of Interest

A portal to 1895 Plymouth, captured in prose that breathes reverence and local pride. A.S. Burbank guides readers through harbor arrivals by train, past Captain's Hill where Myles Standish stands in bronze, to Clark's Island where the Pilgrims kept their first Sabbath. This is not a dry chronicle but a living invitation to walk streets still haunted by the weight of early settlement. The guide weaves history into the present tense, lingering at Pilgrim Hall's relics and the imposing National Monument to the Forefathers. Written when Plymouth was still actively grappling with its mythology, Burbank captures a moment before tourism sanitized the past into amusement. Here is the America that believed its origins mattered, rendered in a style both affectionate and precise. For readers who thrill to original documents, who want to hear how an earlier generation spoke to its founders, this guidebook is itself a relic worth preserving.