MORE: Dept. of Conservation and Recreation crews are power washing Plymouth Rock. They tell me they’re using a solution with paint remover. Most of the graffiti has been washed off @boston25 pic.twitter.com/pchC9bRT8P
— Julianne Lima (@JulianneLimaTV) February 17, 2020
Plymouth Rock marks where the Pilgrims landed the Mayflower 400 years ago. The date, 1620, is chiseled into the rock.
Crews with the State Department of Conservation and Recreation and Plymouth’s own Parks Department used a special solution with paint remover to power wash the graffiti off the landmarks.
Those crews also got some help from volunteers.
Jake Mowles, who owns East Coast Powerwashing, got busy cleaning one of the monuments free of charge.
"We were pretty upset about it, we've spent a lot of money this year or the town has spent a lot of money rehabilitating the whole town here and it's pretty disgraceful for somebody to do this," Mowles told WFXT. "If we have the resources to do it and can come out and take care of it for them, that's why we're doing it."
The National Monument to the Forefathers on Allerton St. in Plymouth is still covered in graffiti. I scribbled over profanities @boston25 pic.twitter.com/2Np5XIod5A
— Julianne Lima (@JulianneLimaTV) February 17, 2020
Plymouth’s park superintendent said it will likely take several days to clean up all of the graffiti.
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