The Town of Plymouth in Massachusetts (historically also spelled as Plimouth and Plimoth), was founded in 1620 by English settlers known as Separatists, who had fled England to establish a Utopian community where they could practice their religion freely. While on board the Mayflower, they established the rules for governing the new colony. Known as the Mayflower Compact, the agreement became America’s first legal document of democratic governance in the New World.

Plymouth is located approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Boston in a region known as the South Shore. Throughout the 19th century, the town thrived as a center of rope making, fishing, and shipping, and was home to the Plymouth Cordage Company, formerly the world’s largest rope making company. Credit resourse info plymouth-ma.gov