The First Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving history coloring page shows what the landing of the Pilgrims might have looked like. The man in the picture with the staff would represent William Bradford (the Governor of the Plymouth colony).

Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620, in what would become the United States of America. It is an important symbol in American history. There is no contemporaneous reference to the rock, and it is not referred to in Bradford's journal Of Plymouth Plantation or in Mourt's Relation. The first reference to the Pilgrims landing on a rock is found 121 years after they landed. The rock is currently located on the shore of Plymouth Harbor in Plymouth, Massachusetts.