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Here is the first presidential monument being built 20 years before the first official Presidential Monument... It has a long history of disrepair and repair and our civil war too...
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On the morning of July 4, 1827, residents of Boonsboro, Maryland, gathered in their town square before ascending nearby South Mountain. Their “patriotic purpose,” wrote one William Bell for the local Torch Light newspaper, was “erecting a monument to the memory” of a national hero: George Washington.
Relatively obscure today, this unassuming stone tower has a unique claim to fame. Built more than 20 years before the better-known obelisk overlooking the National Mall, it was the first monument in the United States dedicated to the American president. Yet its history is checkered, punctuated by periods of neglect and even vandalism. It was only in the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, that the monument’s significance was fully recognized.
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
www.smithsonianmag.com
On the morning of July 4, 1827, residents of Boonsboro, Maryland, gathered in their town square before ascending nearby South Mountain. Their “patriotic purpose,” wrote one William Bell for the local Torch Light newspaper, was “erecting a monument to the memory” of a national hero: George Washington.
Relatively obscure today, this unassuming stone tower has a unique claim to fame. Built more than 20 years before the better-known obelisk overlooking the National Mall, it was the first monument in the United States dedicated to the American president. Yet its history is checkered, punctuated by periods of neglect and even vandalism. It was only in the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, that the monument’s significance was fully recognized.
