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Washington Parke Curtis, Martha Washington’s grandson; The trowel was the one wielded by George, Washington at the laying of the Chpitol cornerstone in 1793. *In the monument’s cornerstone went over 70 momentoes, including Washington’s portrait and ;ooat of arms; a city map; census; housing and tax statistics; all U.S. coins from the gold eagle $10 piece to the half dime; and newspapers (New York Daily Sun, Mobile Register and Journal, Baltimore Daily Sun and the Western Citisen of Paris, Kentucky).
| But today no one knows where the cornerstone may be found, although it is presumed to be somewhere in the northeast corner, probably hidden by subsequent foundation enlargement.
Tradition has it that President Andrew Jackson handed the mason a lock of hair from his granddaughter’s head along with one of hip messages to Congress, to be placed in the cornerstone of the. Treasury. But the stone cannot b<| found in the granite building erected in stages after 1836.
Before the White House renora
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