Duxbury’s Alden House Now National Historic Landmark
On this Thanksgiving Eve, I wanted to offer our congratulations to the Aldren Kindred of America, owners and operators of a well known Plymouth County historical property. Recently, the Alden House Historic Site was granted National Historic Landmark status. The United States Department of Interior added the site to the National Register of Historic Places last month. The location preserves the history of the John and Priscilla (Mullins) Alden story and is located at 105 Alden Street in Duxbury. For more information, about the Alden House, go to their website at www.alden.org.
In addition, our Plymouth County Notable Land Records Collection, available on this website, provides a short history of the Alden property along with a copy of the 1630 granting of this property to John Alden as listed in the Plymouth Colony Court Orders. Please note the boundary descriptions in the document including from “the Blew Fish River to a burnt walnut stump” (line five).
We at the Plymouth County Registry of Deeds consider ourselves fortunate to be in the midst of the historical records of the founders of our nation’s first Thanksgiving, the Plymouth Colonists (Pilgrims) and the Wampanoag people. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
