Explore the Washington Monument's history, significance, & surprising facts. Learn why this iconic symbol took 36 years to ...

The Monument in Newton County in southwest Missouri consists of land that was the 240-acre farm of Moses Carver. George Washington Carver was born in 1864 on that farm, which also became his ...

The Little-Known Story of the First Washington Monument A stone tower in western Maryland, the structure predates the obelisk on the National Mall by more than two decades ...

The National Monument in Newton County marks the place where George Washington Carver was born into slavery near the end of the Civil War. “This is where all of his love for science, nature ...

The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., dedicated to George Washington, was completed on Dec. 6, 1884, after nearly four decades of construction.

Despite sentiment for a monument to George Washington beginning shortly after he died in 1799, the Washington Monument we know today wouldn't be built until 1854, and wouldn't be finished until 1885.

Proposals to build a monument to George Washington started as early as 1783, when the new U.S. Congress resolved “that an equestrian statue of General Washington be erected at the place where ...

The scaffolding erected for the Washington Monument restoration has provided the unusual opportunity to see and touch the statue of George Washington up-close. The statue's face is usually only ...