By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was a cold day in the nation’s capital on February 21, 1885 when the Washington Monument was finally dedicated on the National Mall after decades of fits and starts and problems finding matching stones and money to build it, according to the National Park Service, and there…
A special ceremony on the National Mall was held this week to mark the reopening of the Washington Monument, which was damaged in the East Coast earthquake of 2011. Secretary if the Interior Sally Jewell thanked the workers for getting the monument work done on time and under budget and philanthropist David Rubenstein for a…
