Signs, Symbols and Stones: The Portuguese American Urban Ethnic Landscape #6

Jim Fonseca
5 min readJun 7, 2021
Tiled image of Dighton Rock at the Museu da Marinha in Lisbon. Photo from the museum at ccm.marinha.pt

I could jokingly call this post the “Pilgrims vs. Portuguese.” We’ll focus on three monuments in Massachusetts: Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown and Dighton Rock.

We all know the story of Plymouth Rock near where the Pilgrims settled in 1620. Less commonly known is that the Pilgrims first landed at what is now…

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Jim Fonseca

Geography professor (retired) writes The One Minute Geographer featuring This Fragile Earth. Top writer in Transportation and, in past months, Travel.