National Museum of American History
Plymouth Rock fragment with painted inscription, 1830
1830
In the early 1800s, tourists visiting Plymouth Rock were provided a hammer so that they could take a piece of the rock as a souvenir. By 1880, what was left of the rock was fenced off within a memorial.
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