To celebrate the reopening of the Washington Monument today, Out of the Box went digging through the archives and discovered an interesting footnote to its construction. An Arlington Co. judgment sheds some light on why the Washington National Monument Society was plagued by debt.
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2014/05/12/a-monument-of-debt/
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