The Jefferson Memorial
It was not until 1937 that ground was broken on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. At the urging of Franklin Roosevelt, Congress had authorized the construction three years earlier, but the memorial was not dedicated until 1943. The bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson inside was erected four years later in 1947, when Roscoe Bartlett was a student at the University of Maryland. The final cost of construction was a little over $3 Million. Today, over 2 Million people visit the memorial every year.
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