On September 18, 1793 President George Washington laid the
cornerstone to the United States Capitol Building. A cornerstone is the first
stone placed above the ground on any building.
It took over 100 years to completely finish building the Capitol. Today
it has 540 rooms and sits on 4 acres of land….that’s the size of 4 football
fields!
Have you ever been to Washington, DC, our nation's capital? I've been once, in the spring of 1996, when I was a junior in high school. It was our big field trip that year. While that was 16 years ago, I still can remember the pride I felt when I saw the home that almost every President has lived in. Believe it or not, George Washington, our first President, never lived at the White House.
Would you like to visit the White House one day? Going in person might be a hard thing to do right now, but if you click HERE, you can take a virtual tour!
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