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Declaration and Constitution Find a Home at Last
A column describes the permanent shrine for the Declaration and Constitution at the Library of Congress in Washington. It recounts wanderings since 1776 through Philadelphia New York Baltimore Princeton Annapolis Trenton and beyond before their 20th century return to a fireproof shrine guarded in Washington and status as holy design.
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Washington
Dolly Madison
White House
George Washington
Library of Congress
United States of American
Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
The
Alamo
Nathan Hale
Francis Scott Key
George Rogers Clark
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Mount Vernon
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Arlington
United States
Herbert Putnam
Congress
Coolidge
Charles Thomson
Second
Continental Congress
Pennsylvania State House
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Lancaster
York
United States of America
State House
Princeton
N. J
Annapolis
Trenton
New York
Federal Hall
Wall
Nassau Streets
Thomas Jefferson
Market Street
Fifth and Chestnut
Jefferson
James Madison
Treasury
War Office
State
War and Navy Departments
James Monroe
Monroe
Georgetown
Leesburg
Littlejohn
Johia Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
Martin van Buren
John Forsyth
Patent Office
Seventh
F Streets
Daniel Webster
National Academy of Sciences
War
Navy Departments
Cleveland
Walter Q. Gresham
Gresham
Harding