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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.

  1. Battle Ground of Bunker Hill.
  2. Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., Maryland.
  3. Grand Lodge Masons, Tennessee.
  4. Western Military Institute, Kentucky.
  5. Teachers of Buffalo Public Schools, New York.
  6. Brigham Young, Utah Territory.
  7. Braddock’s Field.
  8. Sons of Temperance.
  9. Philadelphia Fire Companies.
  10. Pupils Public Schools, Baltimore, Maryland.
  11. Mount Vesuvius, by William Ferrel, Georgia.
  12. Cincinnati Fire Department.
  13. Grand Lodge of Masons, Mississippi.
  14. Cleosophic Society, New Jersey.
  15. Newark, New Jersey.
  16. Richmond, Virginia.
  17. Swiss Republic.
  18. Ladies and Gentlemen of Dramatic Profession.
  19. Home of Starke, New Hampshire.
  20. Thalion Association, North Carolina.
  21. New Bedford, Massachusetts.
  22. Eukral Lodge, I. O. O. F., New York.
  23. Continental Guard, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  24. Philadelphia Fire Department.
  25. Warren, Rhode Island.
  26. Alexandria, Virginia.
  27. Sons of Temperance of Ohio.
  28. Alexandrian Library, Egypt.
  29. Red Men, Washington City, District of Columbia.
  30. Philadelphia Fire Company.
  31. Two Disciples of Daguerre.
  32. Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F., Mississippi.
  33. Children of the Sunday Schools of New York.
  34. Merchants in China.
  35. Children of the Sunday Schools City of Philadelphia.
  36. Vermont.
  37. Louisiana.
  38. Grand Lodge Masons Floridas.
  39. Bromen, Germany. 
  40. Hibernian Society, Baltimore, Maryland
  41. Boston, Massachusetts.
  42. Salem, Massachusetts.
  43. Athenia Lodge, Troy, Now York.
  44. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia.
  45. Tennessee.
  46. Employés of Norris & Son, Philadelphia.
  47. Grand Lodge of the United States I. O. O. F.
  48. New York.
  49. North Carolina.
  50. Temples of Honor and Temperance of the United States,
  51. American Medical Association.
  52. Honesdale, Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
  53. General Assembly of Presbyterians United States.
  54. Cherokee Nation.
  55. New York City Fire Department.
  56. Grand Lodge of Masons, Virginia.
  57. First Regiment Light Infantry Massachusetts.
  58. St. John’s Lodge Masons, Richmond, Virginia.
  59. Sultan of Turkey.
  60. Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., Kentucky.
  61. Grand Lodge Masons, Arkansas.
  62. Presented by David Porter Heap, M. D., 1855, and taken from Temple of Carthage, Africa.
  63. Battle Ground Long Island, King’s County, 1776.
  64. I. O. O. F. of City and County of Philadelphia.
  65. Minnesota.
  66. Michigan.
  67. New England Society, Canada.
  68. Ancient Egyptian Head, presented by J. H. Lehman,
  69. American Citizens residing at Foo-chow-foo, China.
  70. Governor and Commune of the Islands of Paros and Naxos, Grecian Archipelago.
  71. From Temple of Esculapius, Island of Paros, presented by the officers of the United States steamfrigate Saranac.
  72. Greek Government. (Inscription in Greek.)
  73. 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.”)
  74. Block from Lafayette Lodge, No. 64, F. and A, M., New York.
  75. Citizens of Stockton, San Joaquin County, California.
  76. Jefferson Society, University of Virginia.
  77. Texas.
  78. Lochoo Islands.
  79. Masonic Lodges. (Names unknown.)
  80. Subordinate Lodges City and County of Philadelphia.
  81. From the Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. 

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