Bunker Hill Monument

The Bunker Hill Monument is a 221-foot granite obelisk erected between 1827 and 1843 in Charlestown, Massachusetts.

The monument was erected to memorialize the Battle of Bunker Hill. The monument was first created 1794 by King Solomon's Lodge of Masons and was initially a 18-foot wooden pilliar with a gilt urn.

Famed nineteenth-century philanthropist Amos Lawrence contributed $10,000 to fund the building of the current monument.

Interestingly, the Bunker Hill Monument is not on Bunker Hill but instead on Breed's Hill, where most of the fighting actually took place.

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