Many is the tourist who has been disappointed by Plymouth Rock, a smaller-than-you-expect boulder that “symbolizes the historical disembarkation site of the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in December 1620”. The rock has been moved several times and now sits under a granite canopy to prevent it from escaping. It also probably isn’t even the actual rock the Pilgrims first touched in Plymouth, which wasn’t even the first place they landed in North America.

By contrast, the complete history of Staples Rock in Orleans, Massachusetts is well-known.

I hope to visit this important historical artifact soon.