The National Park Service has re-opened the Washington Monument after a fourth shutdown in as many months. Last weekend, back-to-back blown circuit breakers cut power to the monument.

The Georgia Guidestones, granite slabs inscribed with moralistic instructions, were damaged in an unexplained explosion early Wednesday.

The Washington Monument’s legacy The decades following the CCC restoration brought several welcome developments for the long-overlooked monument.

WASHINGTON — Five men were rescued after a boat capsized on the Potomac River on the Fourth of July. According to DC Fire, ...

(The Eiffel tower would blow the monument out of the water for the tallest building shortly thereafter.) 2. It has a color shift about a third of the way up.

See photos of the lighting of the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon on December 5, 2024.

Invisible memorials and the presence of absence In searching for buried memories, we ourselves become a monument to the dead.

A man was charged with trespassing, tampering and vandalism on Tuesday night, the United States Park Police said. Efforts to clean the monument’s base could take days, a park service spokesman said.

On this day, Dec. 8, in 1982, anti-nuclear weapons protester Norman Mayer threatened to blow up the Washington Monument with a truckload of dynamite before being shot and killed by United States ...

The Andre monument, which was erected by Cyrus W. Field on what is known as Traitor's Hill, in the town of Tappan, to mark the spot where the spy Andre was executed by the order of Gen. Washington ...