Washington Monument News

The San Jacinto Museum of History Association is pleased to announce its participation in the 2013 season of the Blue Star Museums program , offering free entrance to all active duty, National Guard and Reserve military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day, 2013.

Officially, its mission is crowd control. But once again, the squad has shown its uncanny ability to round up a budget.

One of two caskets is seen after services to honor two sailors from the Civil War ship, the USS Monitor, at Arlington National Cemetery, Friday, March 8, 2013 in Arlington, Va.

This week marks the publication of the 20th anniversary edition of the Competitive Enterprise Institute's annual survey of the federal regulatory state, Ten Thousand Commandments .

Imagine being told you and your buddies have to climb a 21-foot tall monument that looks like a smaller version of the Washington Monument.

Several national landmarks will grace the gymnasium floor at the Charles E. Smith Center, where George Washington University's volleyball and basketball teams play.

"We have taken three historic structures, completely rebuilt them, and added for the first time professionally designed and constructed exhibits," says Dan Spedden, manager at Washington Monument State Park.

Workers finish installing the last pieces of scaffolding on the Washington Monument to repair earthquake damage May 9, 2013 in Washington, DC.

More than 400,000 Syrians have crossed into Turkey seeking refuge from the conflict at home.

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The Arthritis foundation will organize a walk to find a cure for arthritis, May 18th.

Construction workers assembling scaffolding at the tip of the monument gave News4 an exclusive look high above the District while wearing cameras on their helmets.

Video captured from the helmet of a worker shows the scaffolding being topped off at the Washington Monument on Monday.

Video: On Monday, the scaffolding surrounding the Washington Monument was topped off, and workers are set to repair damage from the 2011 earthquake.

Ravi Munoz , Ever Salamanca and Douglas Lundberg, with Museum Resources, remove the roof trusses from the Point of Palms slave cabin that is being taken down and moved to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Congress authorized the National Museum of African American History and Culture in 2003, and construction began in February 2012 on its 5-acre ... (more)

Have you ever looked through a telescope while the Washington Monument towered over you? If not , you'll have your chance in just over a month.

The Washington Monument was not finished until 1884, 85 years after the first president's death and more than 100 years after his greatest service to the nascent republic during the American Revolution.

As the locals say, Welcome to Bawl'mer, hon! The largest city in Maryland, the 24th-largest in the United States, the second-largest seaport in the mid-Atlantic, and home to the 2013 Super Bowl champs, Baltimore is an eclectic mix of historic seafaring communities, ethnic neighborhoods, world-class cultural institutions and an emerging fringe ... (more)

Last month, a new building joined the Washington Monument and the Capitol building on the National Mall.

Judy Hahn sings as guest soloist with the Orpheus Club of Newark at their spring concert, May 19 at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison.