City Of New Plymouth

New Plymouth isn't like other towns around the valley. It was a colony town, bought and planned before it was settled like a huge 19th century housing development. It lays claim to being the only town in the United States platted in the shape of a double horseshoe with curving streets that were designed instead of just happening. A group of citizens dissatisfied with city life in Chicago in 1895 formed what they called " The Plymouth Society of Chicago". It isn't believed they were necessarily direct descendants of the Pilgrims who landed in 1620 at what they called Plymouth Rock.