Why is the Washington Monument Temporarily Closed?

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia sent tremors throughout eastern North America. This seismic activity affected a number of Washington, D.C. landmarks, including the Washington Monument. National Park Service engineers and experts in historic ...

Why is the Washington Monument Temporarily Closed?

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia sent tremors throughout eastern North America. This seismic activity affected a number of Washington, D.C. landmarks, including the Washington Monument. National Park Service engineers and experts in historic ...

Washington’s Southern States Tour

In

patriotic commemoration

of

George Washington

on his

tour of the

Southern states

1791

Marked by the North Carolina

Daughters of the American Revolution

1925

Marker is on Old Battlefield Road, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

George Washington’s Inauguration

United States Constitution Bicentennial

“On this site stood the historic Cross Keys Tavern” where George Washington and his party including Governor Livingston arrived late afternoon Saturday April 22, 1789 to spend the night before proceeding to Elizabethtown and hence to ...

George Washington Towns

George Washington Towns was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, May 4, 1801, and died in Macon, Georgia, July 15, 1854. A lawyer and resident of Talbotton, Georgia, Towns served as state legislator, U.S. Congressman, and Governor of Georgia (1847-51). During ...

Washington at the Wayside Inn

Washington

Passed This Place

On His Way to

Cambridge

To Take Command

of the

Patriot Army

June 1775 July

Marker is on Wayside Inn Road ¼ mile west of Boston Post Road (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling west.

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Gen. Washington

In the summer of 1783,

General George Washington

was in the township of

Greenwich, while on a tour

of northern battlefields.

Marker is on U.S. 4, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Washington Headquarters

~ Preakness ~

July 1 – 29, and October 9 -

November 27, 1780, Washing-

ton had headquarters here at

the house of Colonel Theunis

Dey. The main army encamp-

ed along Totowa Heights.

Marker is on Totowa Road (County Route 644), on the left when traveling ...

The Burning of Washington, D.C.

Oxon Hill Farm - Oxon Cove Park

“I cannot express to you the distress it has occasioned at the Battle of Bladensburg. We heard every fire. …Our house was shook repeatedly by the firing upon forts and bridges, and illuminated by ...

George Washington Bicentennial

In memory of

George Washington

1732 - 1799

this tree is planted by

Lewis Boyer Chapter D.A.R.

in the bicentennial year of his birth

1932

Marker is at the intersection of Main Avenue (Ohio Route 29) and Poplar Street, on the right when traveling south on Main ...