Until cancelled by the "woke" culture.Ranch Dressing said:
400 years to the day that the Pilgrims landed in New England.
"America. America, God shed His grace on thee. And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea."
Waltonloads08 said:
bunch of johnny-come-latelys those Pilgrims.
My blood kin arrived in 1609, but further south in Jamestown, Virginia. We had no intention of freezing our balls off in New England.
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On the edge of the Chiltern hills in the South Buckinghamshire countryside in the small village of Jordans you will find the Mayflower Barn standing in a farm that dates back to the late Middle Ages. Its history begins in 1618 when Thomas Russell bought it. Part of the present farmhouse was already there and Thomas Russell added to it in 1624, when he built a substantial new barn with timbers from a ship, thought to be the Mayflower.
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The claim, first originating from J. Rendel Harris' book The Finding of the Mayflower (1920), that the Mayflower ended up as a barn in Jordans, England, is now widely discredited as being a figment of an overzealous imagination on the tercentenary anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage, combined with a tainted oral history. None of the evidence has withstood subsequent investigation.
Regardless of the lack of evidence for its authenticity, it has been featured in National Geographic on several occasions and is a tourist destination. It is important to realize that in 1624, when the ship was scrapped, it was not at all famous, and nobody would have thought twice about letting it rot away.
