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In Plymouth, the reader will find the elm-shaded streets, mill villages, modest shops, and rustic pond-side cottages that generations of residents and visitors have loved. The reader will see vanished landmarks, such as the Samoset House and the Mayflower Inn, the Cornish and Burton schools, and the Leyden Street Casino. From the world's largest rope manufactor (Plymouth Cordage) to Uncle George's famous woolly horse, from Water Street's ancient wharves and chandleries to the storm of 1898, and from Pres. Warren G. 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Visitors have made their own pilgrimages to Plymouth for hundreds of years to \"see where it all began\", gaze at Plymouth Rock, and visit Pilgrim Hall and Plimoth Plantation. However, Plymouth isn't just the Pilgrims. It is a living community where residents still live on the site of the 1620 settlement as well as throughout the entire 103-square-mile township. The town evolved from a coastal fishing, farming and trading center to become a factory town attracting immigrants who followed the Pilgrims in a search for a better life, and has grown three-fold since 1950 to be a commuting and commercial community that hosts millions of visitors annually. Regrettably, images do not survive from the town's earliest history, but even photographs from the past century or so reveal a very different Plymouth - a Plymouth hard to imagine today. 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Some have headstones that are fine art, others are associated with notorious events, and others are the final resting place of famous poets, soldiers, and statesmen. Included are large public facilities as well as the small family burying grounds hidden away behind crumbling stone walls and along once-cultivated farmland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Tms Rmn';\" face=\"Tms Rmn\"\u003eA sampling of cemeteries profiled:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003e\u003cspan data-a-popover='{\"position\":\"triggerBottom\",\"name\":\"contributor-info-B001HCUTYC\",\"allowLinkDefault\":\"true\"}' data-action=\"a-popover\" class=\"a-declarative\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Tms Rmn';\" face=\"Tms Rmn\"\u003e*\u003cb\u003eHope Cemetery\u003c\/b\u003e in Barre, Vermont, where lifelike sculptures of angels and Greek goddesses stand next to a stone soccer ball and Shell Oil truck gravemarker, all elaborately carved from local granite by immigrant Italian stonecutters. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003e\u003cspan data-a-popover='{\"position\":\"triggerBottom\",\"name\":\"contributor-info-B001HCUTYC\",\"allowLinkDefault\":\"true\"}' data-action=\"a-popover\" class=\"a-declarative\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Tms Rmn';\" face=\"Tms Rmn\"\u003e*\u003cb\u003eSpider Gates Cemetery\u003c\/b\u003e, in Leicester, Massachusetts, a notorious Quaker burying ground famed for its frequent ghost sightings and still in use today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Tms Rmn';\" face=\"Tms Rmn\"\u003e*A cemetery situated on the raised median of the Interstate in Warner, New Hampshire,which was preserved in 1970 by highway planners, who constructed the roadway around it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Tms Rmn';\" face=\"Tms Rmn\"\u003e*\u003cb\u003eEvergreen Cemetery\u003c\/b\u003e in New Haven, Vermont, final resting place of Timothy Clark Smith, whose 1893 crypt includes a window to help him escape in case he was buried alive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Tms Rmn';\" face=\"Tms Rmn\"\u003eDriving directions are provided for each cemetery, and detailed maps show the location of the more obscure graveyards. 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