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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: August 30, 2009
Caption: George Washington’s Birthplace Memorial Shaft
Additional Description: In the 1890s Congress donated this 50-foot obelisk and erected it on the site where people then thought were the remains of the birth house. The foundations of the house were unearthed in 1936, closer to the river. The obelisk has no writing on any of its faces. Made of Vermont marble, it is a one-tenth scale replica of the Washington Monument that is in Washington, D.C.
Submitted: September 3, 2009, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p128863
File Size: 3.082 Megabytes

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