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#1 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/06/2010 #2

Fireworks burst beyond the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington on July 4th, 2010.
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#2 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/12/2013 #3

Workers are almost finished installing scaffolding on the Washington Monument, to repair the damage caused by a 5.8 earthquake that struck the Northeast in August 2011, in Washington.
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#3 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/05/2013 #1

The sun rises behind the scaffolding clad Washington Monument in Washington, DC. The National Park Service has announced the decorative lighting will be turned off as work crews begin the task of removing the scaffolding from around the earthquake damage monument. The work is scheduled to be completed and the monument reopened in the spring of 2014.
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#4 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/20/2013 #5

The National Park Service has begun removing the scaffolding that was erected around the Washington Monument to allow crews to repair the obelisk, which was damaged in an earthquake in August 2011. It has been closed to the public ever since, and the park service hopes it will reopen in the spring. It will take about three months for the scaffolding to be gone.
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#5 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 05/13/2014 #5

Steven Avila, a Department of Interior employee, wears a Washington Monument costume as he waves at photographers at the Washington Monument ahead of a ceremony to celebrate its re-opening. The monument, which sustained damage from an earthquake in August 2011, is reopening to the public Monday.
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#6 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 03/29/2015 #5

People take part in the Blossom Kite Festival on the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, Saturday. The event is part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, which is a celebration of the cherry blossom trees given to Washington from Japan as a sign of “enduring friendship”.
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#7 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 09/28/2015 #3

The so-called supermoon passes behind the peak of the Washington Monument during a lunar eclipse in Washington, DC.
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#8 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 11/08/2016 #8

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#11 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/18/2019 #3

People watch as the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the moon is displayed on the Washington Monument.
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#12 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 08/31/2019 #2

The Washington Monument looms in the background on Aug. 26th as a construction worker moves along the dome of the Jefferson Memorial, which is undergoing a fifteen-month project to restore the roofs, repair the stone, and clean the marble.
I’m curious if the funds for the Washington Monument are from the already depleted National Parks department? A ranger at Yellowstone once explained the reason other national parks are in need of maintenance is because almost half of their budget goes to Washington DC.
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#13 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 10/09/2021 #1

In 1888, the public was first admitted to the Washington Monument. #WashingtonMonument
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#14 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 11/20/2021 #1

The Beaver ‘blood’ Moon partial lunar eclipse is seen above the Washington Monument in Washington, November 19th.
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#15 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 12/06/2021 #2

In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk. #WashingtonMonument
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#16 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/21/2022 #1

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#17 Click this link to see Historic Photos page --> 02/21/2022 #2

In 1885, the Washington Monument was dedicated. #WashingtonMonument
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#18 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 06/14/2022 #3

People participate in the 2nd March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in front of the Washington Monument, Saturday, June 11th, 2022, in Washington. The rally is a successor to the 2018 march organized by students protestors after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL.
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#19 Click this link to see News Photos page --> 07/06/2024 #3

Fireworks explode during Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, DC.
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