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1830 ------1837
Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: September 13, 2012
Caption: 1830 ------1837
Additional Description: This monument was not only a symbol of national pride, but a great feat of engineering. The first commercial railway in America was built to transport granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts. A Boston ship rigger built a special hoisting apparatus to lift the five-ton blocks into place. Bunker Hill Memorial Tablets, 1890
Submitted: October 7, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p222723
File Size: 0.298 Megabytes

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