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Tbe caption accompanying Dick Gregory's photo states that he has been a resident of Plymouth since 2005. That is not true. He has been a resident since the early 1970's, though I don't recall the exact year. I went to what was then Plymouth-Carver High School with his daughter Michelle, who graduated a year after I did, she in 1977, I in 1976. Perhaps the Old Colony Memorial newspaper has that information in its archives. Ed 02:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
You referenced wikipedia as a reference source for a wikipedia article? That's actually kinda funny. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.58.247.77 ( talk) 22:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Jamestown, Virginia is considered to be the first permanent settlement in the U.S. by historical consensus. The fact that it was very briefly abandoned in 1610, a decade before the settling of Plymouth, isn't really relevant to the discussion. If you're looking for the oldest continuous English settlement, that would be Hampton, Virginia, which was continuously settled since 1610, which is obviously before Plymouth, Mass. However, Jamestown is considered the oldest "permanent" English settlement despite the brief abandonment. Plymouth itself doesn't make the claim of being the oldest permanent or continuous English settlement, neither should this article. Lb34 03:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
As far as axes to grind goes, though, Digby's used choice phrases on my talk page such as "But this is just a myth taught in public schools in Massachusetts," "What a joke," "definitely trumped up by Mass. historians distorting the truth," "Plymouth, like the Mayflower, are more legend than history," "Well you're wrong and arrogantly so." "Carrying on the fight for years?" Perhaps I'm confused: when was this supposed to be a Virginia-vs-Massachusetts fight? I'm certainly not barging down to articles on Virginia towns seeking to rewrite them, a task best left to the editors who regularly update and oversee them. Looking them over, though, there's really nothing TO rewrite, because articles such as Hampton's and Newport News' make no contrary claim; it is clear that the areas involved plantations which (often but not always) encompassed the areas of the modern-day towns. Now if the sticking point is the word "settlement," I'm happy to change the word in the article to "town," which is completely incontrovertible - Plymouth had municipal government from Day One, and the Virginia settlements had nothing of the sort at the start. Ravenswing 18:20, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
DigbyDalton ( talk) 03:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
In the "Pre-colonial" section, the naming of Plymouth is credited to Captain John Smith; in the "Colonial" section is says the town was named by the the settlers. Which is correct? Geoff McCauley ( talk) 14:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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I don't know how to fix infobox, but link to flag of Plymouth redirects to the one of Plymouth in UK. Nomenon ( talk) 20:14, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
Seriously, the official name of the Plymouth & Brockton is the "Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company." It is NOT "Plymouth & Brockton Bus Company." This has started to become edit warring. Ravenswing 04:59, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
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Tbe caption accompanying Dick Gregory's photo states that he has been a resident of Plymouth since 2005. That is not true. He has been a resident since the early 1970's, though I don't recall the exact year. I went to what was then Plymouth-Carver High School with his daughter Michelle, who graduated a year after I did, she in 1977, I in 1976. Perhaps the Old Colony Memorial newspaper has that information in its archives. Ed 02:55, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
You referenced wikipedia as a reference source for a wikipedia article? That's actually kinda funny. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.58.247.77 ( talk) 22:31, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Jamestown, Virginia is considered to be the first permanent settlement in the U.S. by historical consensus. The fact that it was very briefly abandoned in 1610, a decade before the settling of Plymouth, isn't really relevant to the discussion. If you're looking for the oldest continuous English settlement, that would be Hampton, Virginia, which was continuously settled since 1610, which is obviously before Plymouth, Mass. However, Jamestown is considered the oldest "permanent" English settlement despite the brief abandonment. Plymouth itself doesn't make the claim of being the oldest permanent or continuous English settlement, neither should this article. Lb34 03:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
As far as axes to grind goes, though, Digby's used choice phrases on my talk page such as "But this is just a myth taught in public schools in Massachusetts," "What a joke," "definitely trumped up by Mass. historians distorting the truth," "Plymouth, like the Mayflower, are more legend than history," "Well you're wrong and arrogantly so." "Carrying on the fight for years?" Perhaps I'm confused: when was this supposed to be a Virginia-vs-Massachusetts fight? I'm certainly not barging down to articles on Virginia towns seeking to rewrite them, a task best left to the editors who regularly update and oversee them. Looking them over, though, there's really nothing TO rewrite, because articles such as Hampton's and Newport News' make no contrary claim; it is clear that the areas involved plantations which (often but not always) encompassed the areas of the modern-day towns. Now if the sticking point is the word "settlement," I'm happy to change the word in the article to "town," which is completely incontrovertible - Plymouth had municipal government from Day One, and the Virginia settlements had nothing of the sort at the start. Ravenswing 18:20, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
DigbyDalton ( talk) 03:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
In the "Pre-colonial" section, the naming of Plymouth is credited to Captain John Smith; in the "Colonial" section is says the town was named by the the settlers. Which is correct? Geoff McCauley ( talk) 14:53, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
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I don't know how to fix infobox, but link to flag of Plymouth redirects to the one of Plymouth in UK. Nomenon ( talk) 20:14, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
Seriously, the official name of the Plymouth & Brockton is the "Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Company." It is NOT "Plymouth & Brockton Bus Company." This has started to become edit warring. Ravenswing 04:59, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
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