Few people know that an important naval battle of the American Revolution took place just offshore from present day ...

Built in two phases in 1848 and 1884 and subsequently dedicated in 1885, the Washington Monument — a marble-faced granite obelisk that honors the first U.S. president, George Washington ...

A 9-foot-tall dark granite obelisk on the corner of Venice Blvd ... That object, the Venice Japanese American Memorial Monument (VJAMM), marks the spot where more than a thousand people of ...

But the construction of this stone salute to the Revolutionary ... author of Washington’s Monument and the Fascinating History of the Obelisk. “What they ended up with was not at all what ...

In the national capital, Jefferson and Lincoln have their memorials, Washington his towering obelisk, and plans are ... lacks any monument other than a small marker on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Launched in 2016, the monument park, situated on Kennedy Drive ... flagpoles, a black granite obelisk, black granite markers with insignias for the six military branches, pavers and several ...