Town of Plymouth

 town (New England / New York), draw only border, county seat

Town with a population of 56,468 at the 2010 census. Co-county seat of Plymouth County with Brockton. Originally the site of a Wampanoag village called Patuxet which was wiped out by disease in the period 1614-20. Samuel de Champlain visited the site in 1605, and John Smith visited it in 1614, calling it "New Plimouth" after the town of Plymouth in England. The original settlement site of English Puritans who arrived here in 1620, originally intending to settle in Virginia - the group is now known as the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims settled here after poor weather made exploration of Cape Cod unworkable. Poor knowledge of agricultural settlement made the Pilgrims reliant on Native American assistance, and their first harvest in 1621 is the basis for the current national holiday of Thanksgiving.

Plimouth was made the capital of the Plymouth Colony and stayed the colonial capital until 1691 when Plymouth was incorporated into the Massachusetts Colony. The town is now an active port and tourist destination for its importance in the early settlement of the United States.