The Pilgrim Monument - Provincetown, MA, USA
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The Pilgrim Monument is located at High Pole Hill Road Provincetown, MA and commemorates those Pilgrims on the Mayflower who left England seeking religious freedom from government intervention.
Waymark Code: WMF4AP
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/20/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member coisos
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The Pilgrim Monument was completed in 1910 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, the site of the Mayflower's first landing in 1620. (Despite popular belief, Plymouth Rock was not the first landing site of the Pilgrims.) Many of the Mayflower's passengers were pilgrims who were leaving England in order to escape religious persecution. Here in Provincetown, 41 of the 102 passengers signed the Mayflower Compact which served as the governing document of the new Plymouth Conony. The Pilgrims stayed here in Provincetown for five weeks before moving on to Plymouth.

The Pilgrims were "English Dissenters" who had separated from the Church of England. The dissenters opposed the intervention of the government in religious affairs...a prime motivator for moving to the New World. Their cause was later and briefly triumphant when Cromwell overthrew the monarchy.
Below the Monument is a small park which has a plaque representing a replica of the Mayflower Compact.
See the Pilgrim Monument;s webpage at (visit link)
Read more about the Mayflower Compact at (visit link) about the Mayflower, itself at (visit link)
and about the English Dissenters at (visit link)
Who placed it?: US Government

When was it placed?: 1910

Who is honored?: The Pilgrims

Website about the Monument: [Web Link]
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