The planned monument on the Mall grew out of an earlier effort to have a design originally submitted for Central Park built somewhere in Washington as a national monument. Legislation, introduced by U ...

It wasn’t until the early 1830s that serious planning commenced for the Washington Monument, Washington’s first major memorial, which owed its origins to L’Enfant’s drawings. After the ...

The George Washington monument used to sit at the old junior high school. When the building was demolished, the monument was ...

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The area already boasted a large obelisk monument. In 1896, eleven years after the granite, 555-foot obelisk was built in Washington D.C., a 50 ft. obelisk was placed at the site where it is ...

Thankfully I was able to make it happen, even without advanced planning. The Washington Monument was built to honor George ...

She and other SAHS alumni were gathered on the school's campus that day to dedicate a piece of St. Albans' history – a nearly ...

WASHINGTON — A new monument is in the works for the National Mall. Over the weekend, President Joe Biden signed a law allowing the Women's Suffrage National Monument to be built. The bill was ...

Even if you're only in town for a short trip, visiting the Washington Monument and the White House – two marble symbols of the U.S. – is a must for any first-time D.C. visitor. Standing just ...