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January 19, 2015

The Relic Hunters Who Saved American History

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Early visitors to Plymouth Rock were given hammers to chip off souvenirs for themselves, like the fragment at left, but the stone was protected in a gated memorial by 1880, as shown on the postcard at right. | Collectors Weekly

Posted by gerardvanderleun at January 19, 2015 9:03 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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I'm surprised the idiot white haters who claim we stole the land from the Amerinds, haven't dug up that rock and tossed it into the bay, or dynamited it. That has to be a sty in their eye.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 19, 2015 3:06 PM

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