The Original Washington Monument

This is actually from a few weeks ago, but I didn't sit down to post it until now. This is the first monument to George Washington in the entire country (and therefore, likely, the world). The structure here was rebuilt in the 1930s by the CCC, but looks pretty much like the original, which was built in 1827 by the residents of a nearby town called Boonsboro. Boonsboro residents decided that they should build a monument to GW, so they marched up the nearest of the big hills surrounding their town and built it. Took one day in the summer and a half day after harvest. Men and women of action, those Boonsboro-ites. The view from the top of the monument is gorgeous. The valley viewable from the monument is a migratory route for birds of prey in the Spring and Fall. Park website.