The Lost Cornerstone
With pomp and ceremony, George Washington personally laid the cornerstone of the United States Capitol building on September 18th in 1793. The ceremony was not an official government act but was done as ritual of Freemasonry, then an esteemed club including many of the elite men of government. Washington, wearing his Masonic regalia, lowered a silver plate at the southeast corner of the new building, and laid the stone on top. Although paintings and engravings record the deed, no one knows exactly where the cornerstone is today. Attempts to find it have not revealed the silver plate or other proof of Washington's polished granite square. The location of the stone remains at best, a guess.
Also missing: cornerstones of the White House, the Treasury building, and the Washington Monument.
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