>> sorry about that, tammy faye becker. in fact, per the national park service, the cornerstone was laid on april 4th, 1888, and the stones were donlted by the pope when a movement called the know nothing party stole the stone and threw them in the po team ak river then the know nothings gained control of the commission in charge building the monument and congress withdrut funding. the know nothings bought their own cheap stone which was so bad they had to be removed and in 1858 three years before the civil war began construction of the washington monument was abandoned. sorry about that, creflo beck. it wasn't until 1879, 13 years after the defeat of the side father coogbeck would have supported in the civil war that construction was resumed using rock from a different quarry. the color change fish p fulton j. beck has nothing to do with the civil war. it owes to the interference of and hatred of immigrants by the know nothings.