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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: New York, D. Appleton & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of thatmonth the first shovelful of earth was thrown out,without formal ceremony, and the foundation wascompleted on the eighth day of August. The exca-vation for the foundation was sixty feet square andhad a depth of eight feet below the surface of theground. 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 inchesapart. At each of the four corners of the foundationarose six rods of twisted steel, which were securelyfixed in the concrete of the foundation, far below thesurface. Above the surface of the ground the foun-dation rose to a height of five feet, but graduallylessening in superficial area until at the top it reachedthe dimensions of twenty-eight feet square. The ma-terial taken from the excavation was then employedin raising the grade of the surrounding soil to thelevel of the foundation. The foundation being thus completed, upon thenortheast corner was erected a stout derrick, from 60
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RAYMOND A. HOPKINS. HENRY H. SEARS. DIRECTORS OF THE CAPE COD PILGRIM MEMORIALASSOCIATION. THE MONUMENTS STORY which was suspended the corner stone, a massive blockof North Carohna granite, weighing forty-eight hun-dred pounds, the gift of the Van Amringe GraniteCompany, of Boston. All was now ready for theformal exercises of laying the stone. THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE THE corner stone of the monument was laid onAugust 20, 1907, with imposing ceremonies.These exercises were conducted by the GrandLodge of Masons in Massachusetts, assisted by Theo-dore Roosevelt, President of the United States, andby Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor of Massachusetts,both members of the Masonic Order. It had firstbeen intended that these ceremonies should be held onthe fifteenth day of August, the anniversary of thesailing of the Mayflower from Southampton, but thedirectors were obliged to consent to a postponementon account of the inability of Governor Guild to bepresent, by reason of official engagemen

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