Tuesday 04/10/2006 in Plymouth MA for a high profile CVS store visit. We are re-seting CVS's 5th highest volume store in the nation. It is a 24 hour location and is so busy during the day that it is a night project 9 PM to 7 AM.I arrived around noon so with a bit of time on my hands I decided to visit Provincetown MA and the Pilgrim Monument.
On August 21, 1909 two young girls, using ropes and a pulley, helped haul the last stone into place to complete the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown. The town's Yankee residents had long been seeking funds to erect a monument to the Pilgrims, who landed on the tip of Cape Cod weeks before they ever laid eyes on Plymouth. It took until 1906 to raise enough money. The following year, President Theodore Roosevelt sailed to Provincetown in a yacht appropriately named the Mayflower to lay the cornerstone of the monument. Three years later, President William Howard Taft spoke at the dedication. 116 steps and 60 ramps lead to the top of the 252-foot tower, which is still the tallest all-granite structure in the United States.
If you would like to learn more about todays adventure visit http://www.massmoments.org/index.cfm?mid=242
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