Eventually, the Conservancy and Save the Trees ... monument to Washington, its cornerstone was laid July 4, 1815, rather than Washington’s birthday. When it was found about 200 years later ...

Yoshino cherry trees circle the Tidal Basin and spill north onto the Washington Monument grounds. Yoshino cherries produce many single white blossoms that create the effect of white clouds around ...

the National Park Service puts up a massive Christmas tree in President's Park on the Ellipse just across from The White House. If you turn the other direction, you'll see the Washington Monument.

Visitors can climb the 896 steps inside the monument to the observation ... The plans for the structure began in 1835, as The Washington National Monument Society appointed bonded agents to ...

Few structures represent the United States as powerfully as the Washington Monument. At the center of ... blocks of stone to be displayed inside the shaft of the obelisk. These were mostly patriot ...