Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse every funnel plume a punctuation

every funnel plume a punctuation mark in America's loudest diplomatic sentence

all sash and slogan and stiff-collared resolve

and Jackson's long shadow

and the unsmiling gaze of a man who held the high ground in July of 1863 and understood

Cape Canaveral Iron Sentinel the Keepers Spiral Ascent traces the cast-iron plate tower that has watched the Florida surf since 1868

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse every funnel plume a punctuationDesign of the National Washington Monument 1846 an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac, drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base, before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half built in the mud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National