Free previewStop 6 of Plymouth Walking Tour: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims
The Street That Kept Changing Its Name
You're standing on Leyden Street, the short, narrow road that runs between the waterfront and the hill. Turn so you're facing uphill and follow the street with your eyes as it climbs toward the rise at its top. That rise is Burial Hill. The whole length of what you're looking at was the town of Plymouth, once.
In December 1620, the Mayflower passengers had a problem. Winter had arrived and they were still living aboard a crowded ship anchored in the harbor. They needed shelter on land, and fast. So before Christmas they began laying out a single street. It ran from the shore up to the base of that hill, where they would put their fort. Town Brook, just alongside, gave them drinking water. Families drew lots along both sides. William Bradford, who would govern the colony for most of its first decades, had a lot here.
That's the opening. The rest plays at stop 6 of Plymouth Walking Tour: Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims (3 min in all). Unlock the tour to hear it all, or try stop 1 free first.
