Congress began ... the dedication of the Washington Monument on the day before Washington’s birthday: Feb. 21, 1885. Image rights belong to the U.S. Naval Observatory Library.

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George Washington ... Monument construction timeline here. Sources: The Department of Defense, Mount Vernon, National Park Service, U.S. Senate, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress ...

Washington, DC is a strange place ... I was mostly doing archival research deep in the Library of Congress, but I did have to leave from time to time – to get lunch, to go for coffee, or ...

The Library ... George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.” It wasn’t until 1832, the centennial of his birth, that Congress ...

The Library of Congress does note ... whose books include “Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.” Making it official ...