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PILGRIM MEMORIAL MONUMENT, PROVINCETOWN, MASS.
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PUBLISHED BY H. A. DICKERMAN & SON, TAUNTON, MASS. MADE IN USA
PILGRIM MEMORIAL MONUMENT, PROVINCETOWN, MASS
HEIGHT 252 FEET, COST $90,000.00.
The Pilgrim Memorial Monument which stands upon
Town Hill, Provincetown, Mass., and which is a landmark
for many miles around, is erected to commemorate the
landing of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod Nov. 11th, 1620, their
anchoring in this harbor; the adoption in the cabin of the
Mayflower, on the day of the arrival, of the Compact of the
Government, the first charter of a democratic government in
the world's history; the birth here of Peregrine White, the first
white child born in New England: the death of Dorothy
Bradford, the wife of Wm. Bradford, afterward Governor of
Plymouth; the explorations in search of a place for permanent
colonizations; and the entire train of events which preceded
the settlement of Plymouth.
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