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They have put up a liberty pole, which is essentially just that: a big wooden pole.

The liberty pole tradition traces its roots to ancient Rome, where a group of senators celebrated the emperor’s assassination by sticking a red cap on top of a pole.

Back in 1774, our dudes set themselves to the task of removing a 10-ton boulder from the sand to get it into a cart where 30 strong oxen would haul it up Cole’s Hill, and then they would place it atop the liberty pole to tell every redcoat in the area that Plymouth was ready for a fight, that the spirit of the Pilgrims, brave and defiant, still flowed through their veins.

They put one broken half of Plymouth Rock into the wagon, and the 30 oxen had an easier trip up Cole’s Hill, and they deposited it beside the liberty pole.

Last April, early in the pandemic, Washington’s two distilleries – Liberty Pole Spirits and Red Pump – made hand sanitizer from high-proof grain alcohol.