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Provincetown Attraction: Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum

PROVINCETOWN TIMELINE: BUILDING THE PILGRIM MONUMENT

Building of the Pilgrim Monument, Provincetown Mass

August 5, 1910. President William Howard Taft and Mrs. Taft arriving in Provincetown Harbor for dedication of the Pilgrim Monument ceremony.

 

 

 

 
Railroad wharf with view of High Pole Hill in the background. Pictured is a barge with a crane that lifted the granite blocks off of ships from Stonington, Maine. The blocks were loaded onto carts and transported to the base of High Pole Hill. There the granite was loaded onto motorized rail carts, which carried the blocks up the hill to the construction site. Circa Spring 1907 A railway was constructed from Bradford Street up the side of High Pole Hill in order to deliver granite that was shipped by sea from Stonington, Maine. Circa Spring 1907. Three work men at foundation of the Pilgrim Monument, preparing the granite cornerstone to be laid by President Roosevelt, with newly constructed grandstand in the background. Circa August 1907.
President Theodore Roosevelt arrives for the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Pilgrim Monument on August 20, 1907. Laying of the Cornerstone of the Pilgrim Monument on August 20, 1907.
A views of crowd and grandstand at corner stone laying ceremony on August 20, 1907. Beginning of foundation of the Pilgrim Monument with twisted steel placed at the bottom, ready for cement to be poured. Cement mixer and tracks with cart at top of hill ready to workmen to begin initial construction. Circa Spring 1907.
At the Laying of Cornerstone, President Roosevelt is seated before the ceremony begins as a large crowd is seated in the grandstands behind him. The presidential parade for the Pilgrim Monument dedication on August. 5, 1910. The image shows the parade moving west down Commercial Street near the corner of Ryder Street.
President William Howard Taft addressed the attendees to the dedication of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument on August 5, 1910. On the left of President Taft is J. Henry Sears, President of the Cape Cod Pilgrim Memorial Assocation, and to his right is Mrs. Taft, their son Charlie, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.    

All images courtesty Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum (PMPM)
www.pilgrim-monument.org
 

 

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