A 116-foot granite tower topped by a statue of Pilgrim military leader Myles Standish rises from a hill overlooking Duxbury. The unusually tall nineteenth-century monument looks like a stone watchtower and opens for interior climbing only on selected dates.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: mass.gov/locations/myles-standish-monument-state-reservation