The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., dedicated to George Washington, was completed on Dec. 6, 1884, after nearly four decades of construction.
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade gives viewers a look at George Washington's 'Secret Six,' a spy ring of agents loyal to Washington created to save and become a country, on 'One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.'George Washington
"On a breezy December 6, [U.S. Army] Lt. Col. [Thomas Lincoln] Casey supervised as the 3,300-pound capstone was brought out through one of the windows, hoisted to the scaffolding at the dizzying tip of the monument, and set in place. Casey then placed the 8.9-inch aluminum tip atop the capstone to the cheers of the crowd below," writes the National Park Service.
"First in War, First in Peace and First in the hearts of his countrymen," General Henry"Light Horse Harry" Lee famously said in his eulogy of Washington, who commanded the Continental Army in the American Revolution, nearly single-handedly held the rebellion together in its darkest hours and then served two terms as first president of the United States.
"Have u been f----- by this," read a message splashed on the monument in red paint in September."Gov says tough s---." and temporarily closed the area around the base of the monument while they investigate. The private Washington National Monument Society was founded in 1833 to build a tribute to the first president that would be"unparalleled in the world," the NPS notes. "From the first, the society had trouble collecting money," historian John Lockwood wrote in Prologue magazine in 2016.
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