Virtual Tour of Plimoth Plantation
Plimoth (Plymouth) Plantation was the first permanent European settlement
in southern New England (AD 1620). Today, this area is the site of a
living museum, dedicated to recreating 17th - century lifeways in the
New World. Plimoth Plantation includes several exhibits:
All components are interpretive exhibits illustrating many aspects of life.
People in historic period costumes carry out their daily tasks which would have been conducted by the occupants of the settlement. Their dialect is recreates the flavor of the period as well.
Last year the Plimoth Plantation has expanded their exhibits by adding the Nye Barn to provide visitors with an in-depth look at their Rare and Minor Breeds Animal Program. Visitors will be able to view the types of animals that would have inhabited the first European Settlement in Plymouth.
Also new, is the "Irreconcilable Differences" exhibit. Opened on JULY 29TH 1995, this exhibit concentrates on the 1620-1692 period, rather than just the 1620's decade, as do the other sites and exhibits at the Plantation.
The exhibit uses an interactive enviornment, which visitors can use to ask questions and hear first person accounts from two of the periods' inhabitants, Mary Allerton Cushman and Wampanoag Squaw Sachem Awashonks, to explore the evolution of both the colony and Native Americans in the period of expansion after the 1620's decade.
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- An interpretive
guides dressed in period clothing.
- A semi-subterranean house.
- Another 17th- century
house
- A view of several
houses showing the organic nature of the architecture at this colonial settlement.
- Detail of the interior of a bastion.
- A 17th- century outdoor oven.
- A
meal being prepared inside one of the houses.
One of the interpretive guides at Hobbamock's Homesite dressed in a mixture of traditional Native American and European clothing.
- Canoes at the Eel river near Hobbamock's Homesite
- A bark and cattail weetu at
Hobbamock's Homesite.
There is also a bark-covered longhouse.
- A detail of bullrush wall mats
inside the weetu.
- A twined bag.
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Cultivating and hunting tools.
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A view of the maize growing at Hobbamock's Homesite.
- Food and storage
containers.
- A typical meal being cooked at Hobbamock's Homesite.
- Storage pit
feature.
Some pictures of the tour located at the University of Connecticut's Archnet Historical Database
For a complete look from the archaelogoical perspective go to http://spirit.lib.uconn.edu/ArchNet/Topical/Historic/Plimoth