Alden, John and Priscilla, Family Sites
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The John and Priscilla Alden Family Sites is a National Historic Landmark consisting of two separate properties in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Both properties are significant for their association with John Alden, one of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony who came to America on board the Mayflower and held numerous posts of importance in the colony. Alden and his relationship with Priscilla Mullins were memorialized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in The Courtship of Miles Standish, a fictionalized narrative poem that made the story a piece of American folklore. One of the two properties contains the archaeological remains of the house that Alden built c. 1630, and is also significant in the field of historical archaeology as the mature field work of Roland W. Robbins (1908–1987), an early historical archaeologist. It is on land owned by the Town of Duxbury. On the second property stands a house which was traditionally dated to c. 1653 as a work by Alden, but it has been judged by forensic analysis to have been built around 1700, probably by Alden's grandson. This property has been under the continuous ownership of the Alden family; it is now managed by a family foundation as a historic house museum.
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When was Alden, John and Priscilla, Family Sites listed on the National Register?
Alden, John and Priscilla, Family Sites was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978.
What type of historic resource is Alden, John and Priscilla, Family Sites?
Alden, John and Priscilla, Family Sites is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
Is Alden, John and Priscilla, Family Sites a National Historic Landmark?
Yes. Alden, John and Priscilla, Family Sites has been designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL), the highest level of federal recognition for historic properties in the United States.
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