The Mayflower soon encountered Pollacks Rip, off the coast of present-day Chatham. This is an area where some say nearly half of all shipwrecks off the American coast have occurred.

On board the Mayflower II, ... Steve Peters created an exhibit for Plymouth 400 about the Pilgrims' arrival, called "Our" Story: 400 Years of Wampanoag History. Chen asked, ...

On the evening of the 17th, fifteen miles north of Cape May, came in collision with the steamtug Mayflower, hence for Lewiston, Del., with a steam pump on board. Capt.

The Boston sloop Mayflower, the latest addition to the fleet of racers which are to contend for the honor of defending the America's Cup, lay at anchor yesterday off the Atlantic ...

The Mayflower finally arrived in Plymouth Harbor on Dec. 16, 1620, and the Pilgrims settled in New Plymouth. The location was no kinder to the immigrant Pilgrims than it had been to the natives ...

Interest in Pilgrim genealogy is surging with the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's 1620 arrival in the New World fast approaching. Contributing: The Associated Press. Featured Weekly Ad.

John Alden, one of the most famous of the Mayflower passengers, thanks to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1858 poem, “The Courtship of Miles Standish,” was a 21-year-old cooper, or barrelmaker.

1783: Spain regains control of Florida after the British surrender at Yorktown, which effectively grants the United States of ...