District of Columbia Landmarks
Tourist attractions, famous landmarks and other points of interest in District of Columbia:
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A granite column erected by the State of Ohio for the Ohio National Guard Infantrymen who took part in the defense of Washington at Fort Stevens in July 1864.
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A granite statue of a soldier erected by the State of New York in honor of the war dead who died in the defense of the Capital in 1864. The monument was dedicated on September 18, 1914.
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Located in Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial, this sculpture was designed by Daniel Chester French and was based on photographs of President Lincoln.
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President Dwight Eisenhower and AFL-CIO President George Meany laid the cornerstone of the building in 1955. The two murals on the ground floor titled, " Labor is Life" (south) and "Labor Omnia Vincit," (north) were designed by Lumen Martin Winter.
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The memorial commemorates the service of 209,145 African-American soldiers and sailors who fought for the Union in the American Civil War.
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Opened in January of 1999, the Civil War Memorial Museum uses photographs, documents and state of the art audio visual equipment to help visitors understand the African American's heroic and largely unknown struggle for freedom.
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The Einstein Planetarium has a Zeiss Model VIa planetarium instrument, America's Bicentennial gift from the people of West Germany. Plus, the theater has a dual digital projection system and six-channel digital surround sound.
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