From the August 24, 2008 issue of The Cape Cod Times
Students search for the 'first Plymouth Rock'
By Robin Lord
rlord@capecodonline.com
August 24, 2008
ORLEANS - It's a mystery that could prove how the Pilgrims set the boundaries for the first Cape Cod towns.
Called "The Cornerstones Project," the effort has already paid dividends for a Chatham man and a group of Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School students, who this spring discovered a boulder etched with a giant "X" in Orleans Town Cove. The rock may have been placed there by Pilgrims as a marker for the southernmost boundary of the town of Eastham.
"It just seems so top secret," said Joey Benedict, 13, of Dennis, who chose the Cornerstones seminar last spring. Read more...
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