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Title: The Pilgrims and their monument
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Carpenter, Edmund J. (Edmund Janes), 1845-1924
Subjects: Provincetown (Mass.). Pilgrim monument Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)
Publisher: Cambridge, (Mass.) : Privately printed
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Boston, in June, 1907. On the twentieth day of that
month the first shovelful of earth was thrown out,
without formal ceremony, and the foundation was
completed on the eighth day of August. The exca-
vation for the foundation was sixty feet square and
had a depth of eight feet below the surface of the
ground. The foundation was a solid mass of con-
crete, reinforced at intervals of five inches with lay-
ers of rods of twisted steel, placed eighteen inches
apart. At each of the four corners of the foundation
arose six rods of twisted steel, which were securely
fixed in the concrete of the foundation, far below the
surface. Above the surface of the ground the foun-
dation rose to a height of five feet, but gradually
lessening in superficial area until at the top it reached
the dimensions of twenty-eight feet square. The ma-
terial taken from the excavation was then employed
in raising the grade of the surrounding soil to the
level of the foundation.
The foundation being thus completed, upon the
northeast corner was erected a stout derrick, from

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DIRECTORS OF THE CAPE COD PILGRIM MEMORIAL
ASSOCIATION.

THE MONUMENT'S STORY

which was suspended the corner stone, a massive block
of North Carolina granite, weighing forty-eight hun-
dred pounds, the gift of the Van Amringe Granite
Company, of Boston. All was now ready for the
formal exercises of laying the stone.

THE LAYING OF THE C0RNER STONE

THE corner stone of the monument was laid on
August 20, 1907, with imposing ceremonies.
These exercises were conducted by the Grand
Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts, assisted by Theo-
dore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and
by Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor of Massachusetts,
both members of the Masonic Order. It had first
been intended that these ceremonies should be held on
the fifteenth day of August, the anniversary of the
sailing of the Mayflower from Southampton, but the
directors were obliged to consent to a postponement
on account of the inability of Governor Guild to be
present, by reason of official engagement

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