Registered To
Sherman Otis Houghton
Registry No.
001446
WAMO-E-C142-S08
- Face
- East
- Level
- 142
- Position
- 8
- Elevation
- 282 ft–284 ft
- Marble
- Beaver Dam Quarry, Cockeysville, Maryland marble
- Campaign
- 1879-1884
Your Place
In The Monument
East Face · Level 142 · ≈ 282 Ft
Your Stone
Level 142 Masonry
10 Stones
Stone 8 · Position 8 of 10
WAMO-E-C142-S08
Part of a monument. Part of a greater story.
The Monument Behind Your Stone: One Shaft, Two Building Eras
The Story In The Stone
Construction began in 1848, stopped near 152 feet in 1854, and resumed under federal engineers before the shaft was completed in 18841,4.
The visible change in the marble records that interruption: different quarry beds and decades of unequal weathering made the building eras legible on the exterior6,7,8.
Masonry levels, construction campaigns, and marble sources follow National Park Service and Library of Congress records. Individual stone width and position are reconstructed from the documented taper and are not an as-built record. A registration is commemorative and conveys no ownership of the monument.