Building the Washington Monument: The Commemorative Stones
The list below appears in the back of this 1871 report from the Washington National Monument Society: Views of the Early Patriots Regarding It; Reasons why it Should Remain on its Present Site; Objects and Uses of Such Structures—An Appeal to the People and Their Representatives, Published by the Monument Society.
More information on each is in The Washington Monument: A Technical History and Catalog of the Commemorative Stones, a 2005 publication from the National Park Service written by Judith M. Jacob.
LIST OF CONTRIBUTION BLOCKS AT LAPIDARIUM, WASHINGION MONUMENT SOCIETY.
- Battle Ground of Bunker Hill.
- Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., Maryland.
- Grand Lodge Masons, Tennessee.
- Western Military Institute, Kentucky.
- Teachers of Buffalo Public Schools, New York.
- Brigham Young, Utah Territory.
- Braddock’s Field.
- Sons of Temperance.
- Philadelphia Fire Companies.
- Pupils Public Schools, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Mount Vesuvius, by William Ferrel, Georgia.
- Cincinnati Fire Department.
- Grand Lodge of Masons, Mississippi.
- Cleosophic Society, New Jersey.
- Newark, New Jersey.
- Richmond, Virginia.
- Swiss Republic.
- Ladies and Gentlemen of Dramatic Profession.
- Home of Starke, New Hampshire.
- Thalion Association, North Carolina.
- New Bedford, Massachusetts.
- Eukral Lodge, I. O. O. F., New York.
- Continental Guard, New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Philadelphia Fire Department.
- Warren, Rhode Island.
- Alexandria, Virginia.
- Sons of Temperance of Ohio.
- Alexandrian Library, Egypt.
- Red Men, Washington City, District of Columbia.
- Philadelphia Fire Company.
- Two Disciples of Daguerre.
- Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F., Mississippi.
- Children of the Sunday Schools of New York.
- Merchants in China.
- Children of the Sunday Schools City of Philadelphia.
- Vermont.
- Louisiana.
- Grand Lodge Masons Floridas.
- Bromen, Germany.
- Hibernian Society, Baltimore, Maryland
- Boston, Massachusetts.
- Salem, Massachusetts.
- Athenia Lodge, Troy, Now York.
- Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
- Tennessee.
- Employés of Norris & Son, Philadelphia.
- Grand Lodge of the United States I. O. O. F.
- New York.
- North Carolina.
- Temples of Honor and Temperance of the United States,
- American Medical Association.
- Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
- General Assembly of Presbyterians United States.
- Cherokee Nation.
- New York City Fire Department.
- Grand Lodge of Masons, Virginia.
- First Regiment Light Infantry Massachusetts.
- St. John’s Lodge Masons, Richmond, Virginia.
- Sultan of Turkey.
- Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., Kentucky.
- Grand Lodge Masons, Arkansas.
- Presented by David Porter Heap, M. D., 1855, and taken from Temple of Carthage, Africa.
- Battle Ground Long Island, King’s County, 1776.
- I. O. O. F. of City and County of Philadelphia.
- Minnesota.
- Michigan.
- New England Society, Canada.
- Ancient Egyptian Head, presented by J. H. Lehman,
- American Citizens residing at Foo-chow-foo, China.
- Governor and Commune of the Islands of Paros and Naxos, Grecian Archipelago.
- From Temple of Esculapius, Island of Paros, presented by the officers of the United States steamfrigate Saranac.
- Greek Government. (Inscription in Greek.)
- Block from Japan. (Translation of inscription: “Exported from the harbor of Simoda, in the Province of Iddsin, the fifth month of the year Ansey Tora, (April, 1853.”)
- Block from Lafayette Lodge, No. 64, F. and A, M., New York.
- Citizens of Stockton, San Joaquin County, California.
- Jefferson Society, University of Virginia.
- Texas.
- Lochoo Islands.
- Masonic Lodges. (Names unknown.)
- Subordinate Lodges City and County of Philadelphia.
- From the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia.

