Rock
rock in case
Piece of the Plymouth Rock
Small piece of the Plymouth Rock donated near the founding of the Historical Society. A pebble-sized piece of rock with accompanying description of its origins. Plymouth Rock was moved to a protective site in 1921, and the moving process left lots of small pieces that people collected and sold. The Society's piece entered the WHS collections as a symbol of the founders of Windsor who came from the Plymouth area in 1635.
Transcript of entry from aquisition book page 54:
Piece of the Original Plymouth Rock which was brought/
by Mr. Willard C. Gompf of the Plymouth Rock Associati-
on of Plymouth, Mass. with the assurance that it was
a genuine piece of that famous stone and presented
to the Society by him Sept. 1921
Transcript of entry from aquisition book page 54:
Piece of the Original Plymouth Rock which was brought/
by Mr. Willard C. Gompf of the Plymouth Rock Associati-
on of Plymouth, Mass. with the assurance that it was
a genuine piece of that famous stone and presented
to the Society by him Sept. 1921
1921.003.001