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![Drawing of Bunker Hill Monument under construction. Drawing of Bunker Hill Monument under construction.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120921060209im_/http://www.nps.gov/ner/images/BOST_DERRICK1.jpg)
Did you know that the financing for The Bunker Hill Monument was a hand-to-mouth project, culminating in a bake sale in 1840, three years before the dedication? By contrast, The Dorchester Heights Monument was financed by an appropriation from the Massachusetts Legislature amounting to $100,000.