First Spring
This plaque is mounted to a rectangular chunk of granite in a small remote clearing between the wooded hills and sand dune marshes at the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A few feet from the plaque is a small "pothole" in the grasses, approximately 2 x 2 feet, where indeed there appears to be a source of fresh water. This was the area the Pilgrims first landed with the Mayflower, before continuing on to Plymouth in the following weeks. The plaque can be access by a paved bicycle path which runs through the marshes or a footpath that descends from the hills. This is part of "Head of the Meadows" area in the town Truro, near the border with Provincetown.
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FIRST SPRING
FOUND NOVEMBER SIXTEENTH, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND TWENTY BY AN EXPLORING PARTY SENT BY THE FIRST CIVIL BODY POLITIC. "ABOUT TEN A CLOCKE WE CAME INTO A DEEPE VALLEY FULL OF BRUSH, WOOD-GAILE AND LONG GRASS, THROUGH WHICH WE FOUND LITTLE PATHS OR TRACTS, AND THERE WE SAW A DEERE, AND FOUND SPRINGS OF FRESH WATER, OF WHICH WE WERE HEARTILY GLAD AND SAT US DOWNE AND DRUNKE OUR FIRST NEW ENGLAND WATER"
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[editor's note: accidentally deleted the email of the submitter from this! Please contact me at Kester+readtheplaque@gmail.com if you'd like submission credit!]