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Pilgrim Monument
Provincetown Massachusetts
View of the Pilgrim Monument with Mayflower Compact bas-relief below as seen from Bradford Street.
Photo: Peter Whitlock
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The Pilgrim Monument was built between 1907 and 1910 to commemorate the first landfall of the Pilgrims in 1620 and the signing in Provincetown Harbor of the Mayflower Compact.
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- In 1910, Cape Cod's first museum opened at the base of the monument.
- It was designed by Willard T. Sears after the Torre del Mangia in Siena, Italy.
- President Theodore Roosevelt laid the cornerstone in 1907. In 1910, President William Howard Taft dedicated the finished tower.
- This 252-foot tall campanile (bell tower) is the tallest all-granite structure in the United States and is part of the Provincetown historic district.
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