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The Pilgrims first landed on Plymouth in December 1620.
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The rock ended up as a special monument but at the time of the First Comers, they didn't pay too much attention to it.
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The rock sat there for 121 years not doing a thing to make history and then became a subject of conversation.
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The descendants of the First Comers were arguing about who first stepped on the rock. So they brought the oldest descendant of the First Comers (Elder Thomas Faunce) . He told them (pointing at the rock) that the First Comers steered up and out they stepped.
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The descendants of the First Comers tried to move the rock and it cracked in two. They decided to leave the bottom of the rock and bring the top half. ( They figured that the First Comers stepped on the top not the bottom)
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They built a wharf over the bottom half of the rock. The rock peeked out of the wharf. People leaned, sat, walked, jumped, spit, and ran on it.
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They built a big monument for th top half of the rock. The bottom half was left under the wharf.
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They tried to move the top half again but they broke it. They cemented it back together.
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They put the rock back together and built a big monument that took one whole year to build. They engraved 1620 on the rock.