Who/What commemorated : Pilgrims Point - The Mayflower Steps
Location : ../.. > Ward > Plymouth > St. Peter & the Waterfront Ward > Barbican Mayflower Steps > West Pier
Site/Position : Pilgrims Point, to right as enter point.
Main Transcription
Description : Lettering is raised. All in lower case. Serif plaque has had some sort of textured finish applies.
Transcription : Pilgrims Point - The Mayflower steps. The Mayflower made its first landfall at what / is now Provincetown, Massachusetts on the / 11th November 1520 after 66 days at sea. / There the Mayflower compact, the first / democratic document written in America, was composed and signed. / "And upon the 11th of November we came to an anchor in the bay, which is a good Harbor and a pleasant bay.....a harbor where in a thousand sail of ships may safely ride" / From Mourts Relation: A Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Presented May 19 2000 by the Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum and the town of Provincetown, Massachusetts. //
Additional Crests/Logos
Transcription : None on this plaque. there is an additional plaque with Logos & crests on it of groups / companies etc: who helped construct pilgrims point - The Mayflower Steps.
Material : Aluminium (?)
Reference Number : PLAQUE 069
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