19071776 Club
A stone from Bethlehem is sealed into American granite atop Mount Saint Alban
Roosevelt and 20,000 spectators watch Bishop Satterlee lay the foundation of what he intends as a national cathedral.
By 1907 the Episcopal Church had held its charter from Congress for fourteen years but still had no cathedral to show for it. On September 29, before a crowd of more than 20,000 that included President Theodore Roosevelt and the Bishop of London, Bishop Henry Yates Satterlee laid the cornerstone atop Mount Saint Alban, the highest hill in Washington. A smaller stone carried from the fields around Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was set into the American granite. Satterlee had timed the ceremony to catch prominent clergy already gathered nearby for the Episcopal Church's General Convention in Richmond…
