{"id":15870,"date":"2017-07-07T17:38:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=15870"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:38:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:38:56","slug":"boonsboro-anniversary-marked-at-washington-monument-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/07\/07\/boonsboro-anniversary-marked-at-washington-monument-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Boonsboro Anniversary Marked at Washington Monument State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Nation&#8217;s First Monument to George Washington Rededicated<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> recently joined local dignitaries, officials and reenactors at <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/western\/washington.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Monument State Park<\/a> July 1 to celebrate Boonsboro&#8217;s 225th birthday.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4129\/35781482335_5924b2cabd_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/>Representatives of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Publiclands\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland Park Service<\/a> and Boonsboro Historic Society provided remarks during the ceremony, which included a re-dedication of the monument.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4242\/35393615750_c8ea8e066d_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/>More than two hundred people walked the two-mile trail in Washington County to visit the site and participate in the celebration, taking in the scenic views from South Mountain.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4263\/34941349824_496eba1250_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/>Standing 30 feet tall, the Washington Monument &#8211; built July 4, 1827 &#8211; was the first completed structure in the country dedicated to George Washington.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4049\/35649843761_b3db870f1f_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/>The ceremony featured a historic reenactment from when the monument was first built, including the music of a fife and drum corps and a musket-firing salute from riflemen, carried out by the Sons of the American Revolution wearing military uniforms from the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation&#8217;s First Monument to George Washington Rededicated The Maryland Department of Natural Resources recently joined local dignitaries, officials and reenactors at Washington Monument State Park July 1 to celebrate Boonsboro&#8217;s 225th birthday.Representatives of the Maryland Park Service and Boonsboro Historic Society provided remarks during the ceremony, which included a re-dedication of the monument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[3213,2909,3475],"class_list":["post-15870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-boonsboro","tag-washington-county","tag-washington-monument-state-park"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15870"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15890,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15870\/revisions\/15890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}