A dedication service was held at noon. The volunteers gathered for a cold lunch, and then work was resumed and continued until 4 o'clock, when the monument stood 15 feet high on a base 54 feet in circumference. The day's program ended with the reading of the Declaration of Independence, followed by a three-round salute fired from atop the tower by three Revolutionary War veterans. Plans were made to complete the tower to a height of 30 feet "after the busy season," and in the fall of that year this was done.
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