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raised in support of the project, however, proved to be far short of what the project's true cost would be. By 1869, the project was abandoned by Brown & Stohaker after the firm had already used up $ 9,150 of its allotted funding to erect just sixty of the monument's proposed one hundred and ten feet.
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