Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse Cape Canaveral Iron Sentinel the

Cape Canaveral Iron Sentinel the Keepers Spiral Ascent traces the cast-iron plate tower that has watched the Florida surf since 1868

and Jackson's long shadow

a portrait freighted with the weariness of Reconstruction's unfinished arithmetic

his face the founding republic's most reproduced icon

Design of the National Washington Monument 1846 lost lighthouse Cape Canaveral Iron Sentinel theDesign of the National Washington Monument 1846 an architect's vision for the obelisk on the Potomac, drawn in the years when the republic still imagined it could honor its first president with a colonnaded pantheon at the base, before subscription drives faltered and the Civil War left the shaft half built in the mud. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National