Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — PLYMOUTH ROCK IN THE WEST. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PLYMOUTH ROCK IN THE WEST.

George W. Childs Presents a Memorial Monument. California also has her Plymouth Rock. It is the spot where the first re<curded church service was hbld on uhe Pacific Slope, more than three centuries ago, and it Is to he marked by a. memorial cross, the gift of George W. Childs of Philadelphia.

The memorial is *to be placed about three-quarters of a mile from tlia lighthouse on Point Reyes Peninsula and will have the following inserts* tion:

: Consecrated Oct. 25, 189 a, by the Church | : Missionary Council as a memorial of the .' : service held on the shore of Drake's Hay l : abou; St. John Baptist's Day, June 24, A. ' : D. 1579. by Francis Fletober, Driest of the I : Church of England, Chaplain of Sir Fran- j : cis Drake, Chionicler of the Service. The design is a copy of an ancien Celtic cross, and the stem is to b richly carved after the manner of thi early Celtic Christians. The sub base will be seven feet high and ornamented with runic designs, each facade presenting a cross like that of the main shalt above It.

CALIFORNIA’S MEMORIAL CROSS.