. The street railway review . the Mayflower. The next place passed is Dux-bury. This place was settled in 1630-1632 by men of honor anddistinction in the civil and religious history of the Pilgrims, andwas called Duxbury, after Duxbury Hall, the seat of the Standishfamily in England, for Miles Standish settled here, as did John Pilgrim Hall, containing a choice collection of many and diversobjects connected with or related more or less intimately to thehistory of the town, conspicuous among them being the pewterplate, iron pot and old sword of Miles Standish; residence of Gov-ernor Bradford, w
. The street railway review . the Mayflower. The next place passed is Dux-bury. This place was settled in 1630-1632 by men of honor anddistinction in the civil and religious history of the Pilgrims, andwas called Duxbury, after Duxbury Hall, the seat of the Standishfamily in England, for Miles Standish settled here, as did John Pilgrim Hall, containing a choice collection of many and diversobjects connected with or related more or less intimately to thehistory of the town, conspicuous among them being the pewterplate, iron pot and old sword of Miles Standish; residence of Gov-ernor Bradford, who was 31 times chosen governor of the col-ony, and Burial Hill, another of the old hurying-grounds. Butchief of all attractions is old Plymouth Rock itself—a great,smoothly-worn boulder, bearing simply the carved figures 1620—which lies under a granite canopy close to the spot where the May-flower company first set foot on the mainland. In the hay off Ply-mouth is Clarks Island, where the Pilgrims first touched and where. .MUl I II Ku Aldcn, his rival. Here is the place where Miles Standish livedand died, and here is the little burying-grDund, recently discov-ered beneath a tangled waste of weeds, where are the graves ofMiles Standish, Elder Brewster, John and Priscilla Alden, andmany another of the sturdy Pilgrim settlers. Near the grave ofCaptain Standish stands the Standish monument and the ruins ofthe Standish homestead. The next place of importance is Kingston, so named at the sug-gcslion of Lieutenant Governor Dunimcr, on the 28lh of May, 1717,that being the birthday of his majesty, King George the First. they held their first religious service in the new cnunlry WUncgoing ashore on the mainland. In addition to these historic attractions, which of course areMOW mostly sought for by tourists and travelers, the Brockton &Plymouth Street Railway Co. has established for the benefit ofthe resident population a beautiful park resort, about half-way be-tween Brockton and Pl
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