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Mayflower Passengers Who Died At Sea Memorial

Provincetown · Barnstable County

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The Story

Mayflower Passengers Who Died At Sea Memorial is a historic memorial located at 260 Commercial St in Provincetown, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. Built in 1920. It is a contributing property in a National Register historic district. A contributing property in the Provincetown Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

About this site

Mayflower Passengers Who Died At Sea Memorial is a historical marker in Provincetown, Barnstable County. It is one of 250 historical markers documented in Barnstable County, among 6,897 historic sites cataloged across the county on MassRoam.

The site sits at 42.0515, -70.1881 near Provincetown. The nearest cataloged historic site is House at 104 Bradford St (landmark), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Multi-Family House at 104A Bradford St, House at 102A Bradford St, and Signing of the Mayflower Compact Monument.

This record is drawn from public historical records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

History

This memorial on Provincetown's Commercial Street commemorates the passengers of the Mayflower who died during the ship's 1620 voyage and its first winter anchored in Provincetown Harbor before the Pilgrims moved on to Plymouth. Provincetown was the Mayflower's first American landfall, where the Mayflower Compact was signed in November 1620. The memorial, recorded as dating to about 1920, is a contributing feature of the town's National Register historic district.

📍 42.0515, -70.1881 · Provincetown, Barnstable County
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