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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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August. Slowly the lofty structure arose, until it be-
came not only the most conspicuous object in the
town, but attracted the attention of observers far up
the cape and for many miles at sea.
On the day last named it was announced that the
labors of the builders were nearly ended and that the
last stone was prepared and was ready to be placed
in position upon the topmost battlement. An inter-
ested company of spectators was in attendance to wit-
ness the ceremony. Foremost in the company was
the president of the association, Captain J. Henry
Sears, to whose energy and unselfish devotion this
culmination of a long-cherished hope was chiefly due.
Beside him stood the secretary of the association, Mr.
Osborn Nickerson, of Chathamport; H. H. Sears,
Lorenzo D. Baker, Jr., and Everett C. Nye, direc-
tors; the historian of the association, and Hon. H. V.
Freeman, of Chicago, one of the vice presidents.
There was also present a delegation from the Pilgrim
Club, of Brewster, including Mrs. J. Henry Sears,
James E. Hills, Mrs. W. W. Knowles, Mrs. L. A.

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LAYING OF THE LAST STONE ON THE TOP OF THE PILGRIM MONUMENT.
345 FEET ABOVE THE SEA LEVEL.

THE ERECTION OF THE MONUMENT

Crocker, Mrs. S. M. Nickerson, Mrs. H. H. Collins,
and Rev. E. A. Chase.
The last stone was in form a double parallelogram,
the two parts being at right angles with each other.
Its greatest length was five feet four inches and its
least two feet six inches. Its weight was about one
ton. The stone was attached to the derrick chain by

" the strong grip of a lewis," and four persons took
their places upon it. These were Mr. W. A. Clarke,
the government inspector of the work, who had ap-
plied the square, level, and plumb to every stone in
the building, from the bottom to the top, and who had
watched every movement in the work with the utmost
vigilance; Mr. Richard J. Pearson, the derrick man,
who had directed the raising of every stone to the sum-
mit of the wall; Miss Isabel George, eleven years of
age, and Miss Annie Cromar, fourteen years of age,
the daughter and the niece of Mr. Fred George, the
foreman of the stonework construction. The stone, at
a signal from Mr. Clarke, rose rapidly to the summit

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