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The First Thanksgiving

Plimoth Plantation Virtual Field Trips

Read letters from Pilgrim and Wampanoag children »

They spent two months at sea to reach a strange new world, and barely survived once they got there.

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Entrance to the English village

Wood for making charcoal

The English village at Plimoth Plantation

The Winslow house

The Winslow house

Gathering manure

Carrying manure

Playing Nine Pin

Setting up Nine Pin

Climbing a tree

Captain Myles Standish

Carrying a goat

Neighbors working together

Hen-house and bread oven

Hen-house and bread oven

Goodman Jonathon Brewster

Master John Alden and a heifer

Master John Alden

Mistress Suzanna Winslow

Goodman William Palmer

Thatching a roof

Common storehouse

The Allerton house

Walking with a cow

The mouth of the Eel River

Wampanoag mishoon

Making the mishoon

Controlling the fire

Making a mishoon

Moving the coals

Front of nushwetu

Mother and child

Mother and child

Mother and child

Wampanoag elder

Young Wampanoag man

The fort: Minions

The fort: The meetinghouse

Mistress Bridget Fuller

Goodman William Palmer

Master William Brewster

Food preparation

Harvesting corn

Wampanoag girl with doll

Colonial Education Site

Colonial Education Site: Kitchen

Colonial Education Site: Kitchen

Colonial Education Site: Kitchen

Storage in a colonial house

Thatched roof close-up