Mayflower Society Museum and Library

"Fun with the Family"

The museum, a beautiful white building with a sweeping double staircase, offers a mother lode of history. The original owner of the house (built in 1754) was Edward Winslow, who fled to Canada along with other Tories when the evolutionary War began.
The author and transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson was married in the front parlor in 1835. The Mayflower Society Library, just down the driveway from the museum, is a wonderful resource if you’re interested in researching your family’s history.
The building is the headquarters of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, which has extensive archives and libraries of information that are open to the public.
Watch for the Pilgrim Progress every Friday in August at 6:00 p.m., when a costumed group, representing the Pilgrims who survived the first winter, parade through many historic locales in Plymouth.