Introduction
Established in 1620 by the early Pilgrim settlers of the Mayflower along the Plymouth Bay, the Plymouth community has largely been identified by the Wampanoag communities nearby, as well as the Patuxet of the region proper. The forefathers of the paternal figure of the modern United States of America, as opposed to the maternal Jamestown, are of material significance to the national intellectual culture and associated traditions, including the push for compulsory education and access to higher educational institutions (colleges and universities), many of which are scattered throughout the Yankee areas of the nation.
Influenced by Plymouth
Even though the Plymouth city proper contains no native colleges, universities, or otherwise higher educational institutions, the following colleges and universities may be most influenced by the Plymouth/New England style of beliefs:
- Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
- Yale University (New Haven, CT)
- Brown University (Providence, RI)
- Dartmouth College (Dartmouth, NH)
- Columbia University (New York, NY)
- Princeton University (Trenton, NJ)
- Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
- University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
- Amherst College (Amherst, MA)
- Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME)
- Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
- Pomona College (Claremont, CA)
- Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
- Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
- Hampshire College (Amherst, MA)
- Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA)
- Smith College (Northampton, MA)
- UMass Amherst (Amherst, MA)
- Trinity College (Hartford, CT)
- Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH)
- Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT)
- Colby College (Waterville, ME)
- Bates College (Lewiston, ME)
- Scripps College (Claremont, CA)
- Pitzer College (Claremont, CA)
- Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA)
- Harvey Mudd College (Claremont, CA)
- Augsburg University (Minneapolis, MN)
- Macalester College (St. Paul, MN)
While numerous additional colleges and universities could also be added to the list of institutions based on the Plymouth model, the above institutions are typically identified as the most purely Yankee of Yankee institutions, regardless of physical location in New England or even in the Northeastern United States.
Locally within Plymouth
Within the City of Plymouth is the seasonal ferry access to the Town of Provincetown at the end of Cape Cod, which in turn also provides seasonal ferry access to the City of Boston further north. Along the Warren Cove are the Plimoth Patuxet Museums, containing the household of William Brewster and the Plimoth Patuxet Crafts Center. The Plymouth Long Beach is located across Route 3A and along the cove, with the area further north along the coast home to the National Monument to the Forefathers.
The Pilgrim Memorial State Park is largely identified as a national icon, yet maintained specifically by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and typically home to Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower of the Forefathers of America.
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