“All of Tidal Basin Cherry Trees Doomed By Jefferson Memorial Commission Plans,” a 1937 headline from the Washington Post read. While officials pledged to plant more cherry blossom ...
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day 85 years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial in a ceremony. On Nov. 15, 1939, President Roosevelt laid ...
This airy peninsula just south of the Jefferson Memorial drives a grassy wedge between the Potomac River and the Washington Channel. The park draws sports enthusiasts throughout the year with its ...
The design competition for the memorial begins November 11 ... Veterans Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Here, Captain Jefferson Keel (U.S. Army retired), a member of the memorial ...