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  • Originally published December 11, 2009 at 1:46 p.m., updated December 11, 2009 at 2:44 p.m.

NEW YORK (AP) — A $200,000 grant will help preserve the last column pulled from the World Trade Center rubble after 9/11, officials announced Friday.

Now rusted and fragile, the 58-ton steel column that marked the end of the nine-month recovery effort will eventually be on display in the museum being constructed at ground zero.

Save America's Treasures, a not-for-profit preservation organization, donated the money. The funds also will be used to preserve tributes placed on the column by workers and family members before it was removed from the site in May 2002.

The 82 memorial items include victims' photographs, spray-painted inscriptions and missing-person flyers.

The column was stored in a climate-controlled hangar at Kennedy Airport until it was returned to ground zero last August.

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum, a not-for-profit corporation created to oversee construction of the museum, was awarded the grant. The museum will honor almost 3,000 people who died in both the 1993 and 2001 terrorist attacks on the trade center.

The 36-foot column is to be erected in front of the original retaining wall that kept back the Hudson River waters and remained standing after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.


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