Jefferson Memorial - Legoland - Carlsbad, CA
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N 33° 07.665 W 117° 18.643
11S E 471015 N 3665492
The Jefferson Memorial - Located in Mini-Land of Legoland in Carlsbad, CA
Waymark Code: WMGYNB
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2013
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On November 15, 1939, a ceremony was held in which President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the real Jefferson Memorial. Now after the opening of Legoland California in 1999, within the next 2 years the Miniland structures were built. The Jefferson Memorial being one of them.
For those wanting to know here is a little history on
LEGO®.... Ole Kirk Christiansen started making wooden toys in his small workshop in Billund, Denmark in 1932. Two years later, Ole Kirk decided upon a name for his toys and his workshop - LEGO®, a contraction of the Danish words 'leg godt,' meaning 'play well.' Coincidentally, it was later learned that LEGO in Latin means "I put together" or "I assemble."
In 1947, the company bought its first plastics injection-molding machine and in 1949 the forerunner to the LEGO brick was introduced, under the name "Automatic Binding Bricks".
Inner tubes on the bricks were introduced in 1958, which significantly increased the number of possible building combinations
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