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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Know-Nothings Steal The Pope's Stone (1854)
Description: It’s March 7th. On this day in 1854, vandals broke into the construction site at the Washington Monument, made off with the “Pope’s Stone,” and threw it in the Potomac River.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss the incident, why it was part of rising anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States, and the very rocky construction of the Washington Monument.
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