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Plymouth Rock Goes to Nevada
Plymouth Rock as a whole will probably never be allowed to leave Plymouth, for Plymouth without its Rock would be like Boston without its codfish, or New York without its Statue of Liberty.
But in the cornerstone of “a deserted, shuttered courthouse” in the abandoned town of Aurora, Nevada, lies a genuine piece of Plymouth Rock itself. How did it get there? Here’s the story, recently brought to light:
It was 1862, when Major E. A. Sherman of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, a town not many miles from Plymouth, went to the wild-west mining town of Aurora. There he became publisher of a newspaper, The Esmeralda, and engaged in raising funds for disabled veterans of the Civil War. One day, Major Sherman put up in an auction for this latter purpose a piece of gold and silver ore. The higher bidder generously gave it back to Sherman, to be re-auctioned. Many thousands of dollars were raised in this way, and no successful bidder would keep the ore. So Sherman decided to take the ore back east on a visit home and try to exchange it for a piece of Plymouth Rock.
The files of the Old Colony Memorial, Plymouth’s weekly newspaper, for Dec. 10, 1864, show that Major Sherman was successful in swapping ore for rock. He took the piece of rock back to Aurora. There “it was cemented to the foundation of the courthouse” and is there to this day.
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Posted by capelinks - (website) on 05/19/06
Categories: History, Interesting
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