This chime plays the last six notes in the refrain of America, the Beautiful, one of America's most beloved patriotic hymns.
No other song captures the grandeur of the American landscape and the indomitable spirit of the American people quite like America, the Beautiful.
In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act, authorizing the construction of a transcontinental railroad. This monumental project was completed seven years later, connecting one seaboard to another (sea to shining sea) by rail. And it was by train, in the summer of 1893, that poet and college professor Katherine Lee Bates traveled from Massachusetts to Chicago and on to Colorado Springs. At the summit of Pikes Peak in the Colorado Rockies, she was inspired to write the words to America, the Beautiful, which was first published two years later and eventually set to a melody by Samuel A. Ward.
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