The founding father’s statue has stood in Capitol Square downtown since 1857 but hasn’t had a fresh coat of lacquer in 43 ...

Resting within Woodland Cemetery’s 46 acres at Fifth and Jefferson streets are mounds that reflect the sacred Native American ...

While big marches can raise public consciousness and help activists connect, by themselves they will not block Trump and Musk ...

Authorities say a fire has destroyed what has been described as “the South's largest remaining antebellum mansion" between ...

Three years after the laying of the Washington Monument’s cornerstone in 1848, Pope Pius IX and the Vatican answered a call to aid in the construction of the obelisk honoring the first American ...

His eloquence helped launch the modern environmental movement and gave power to the idea that the nation’s public lands are a fundamental part of the United States’ national identity and a cornerstone ...

Fourteen years then passed before the cornerstone was laid and five ... (because of its hilltop location) the 555-ft. Washington National Monument. The tower will enclose the world’s most ...

It reads: On the 4th of July AD 1815 was laid this Foundation Stone of a Monument to be erected of the Memory of George Washington.” Just as the time capsule was a collaborative effort, the ...

The city was known as Columbia until 1791 when it was named in Washington’s honor. July 4, 1848: The cornerstone of the monument is laid with great fanfare. Within the 24,500 pound marble ...

In his master plan for the new city of Washington, D.C., architect ... Freemasons laid a symbolic cornerstone for the monument. By 1854, the monument was 143 feet tall but money was running ...

They were instrumental in organizing support (and raising money) for the Washington Monument, the first memorial on the Mall, whose cornerstone was laid in 1848. And in 1921, to honor the 19th ...