The Capitol Hill Parks include several park areas east of the U.S. Capitol. Included in this group are Folger, Lincoln, Stanton, and Marion Parks, the Eastern Market and Potomac Avenue Metro stations, and several smaller land parcels such as Sewa...
On the morning after Lincoln's death in 1865, sixty-year old Charlotte Scott, a former Virginia slave living in Ohio, donated five dollars to her employer and asked that it be used toward a monument for the president. A campaign among freed slaves raised $18,000 for the memorial. Frederick Douglass delivered the keynote speech at the monument's dedication on April 14, 1876, which was attended by President Ulysses S. Grant and other political figures. The Emancipation Monument
(484 words)<br />Located in the heart of Lincoln Park in Capitol Hill at Massachusetts Avenue and North Carolina Avenue NE is the Emancipation Memorial. <br />Lincoln Park has a rectangular shape and is bounded by 11th Street NE to the west and 13th Street NE to the east. North and south of the park are the respective westbound and eastbound lanes of East Capitol Street, NE. All sides have walkway access into the park with traffic lights, as well as at the park's four corners. There is also street access at 12th Street SE on the south side and 12th Street NE on the northern side.<br />A 20-foot wide cement walkway runs about 100 yards from the west end of the park through a wide grass lawn and shade tree-filled park area on both sides. Tall black walkway lights with glass tops line both sides of the walkway.<br />As you approach the memorial plaza area, the statue of Abraham Lincoln and a slave kneeling at his left side are facing the away from you. The cement plaza is about 100 feet wide and lined with 10-foot tall trees and bench seating throughout on both sides.<br />The memorial statue is surrounded by a ten by ten-foot square patch of grass with low bushes. Walking around to the front side of the statue, three by three-foot stone pavers lead up to its base.<br />The twelve-foot tall bronze sculpture of Lincoln also sits atop a twelve-foot high octagonal-shaped podium. Underneath are two square base pieces, of twelve by twelve and ten by ten widths and each four inches high.<br />The memorial faces out to the west and is directed at another statue about 1oo yards over on the park, who is faces back in his direction.<br />Lincoln is standing, with his left hand outstretched over the head of a man of African descent who is kneeling at his left side. Lincoln is wearing a long coat with tie and no hat. The kneeling man has tight curly hair, no shirt, and only a loin cloth. His left hand supports his weight on the ground, and his right fist is balled up, grasping the broken manacle around his wrist. His right wrist is also chained. Lincoln looks down upon the kneeling man with a benevolent expression. The kneeling man's head is uplifted with a steely hopeful expression.<br />Lincoln's right hand holds a furled-up copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which rests atop a podium. In bronze below the two figures at the base of the statue is the word "Emancipation."<br />The podium is adorned with the bust of what appears to be George Washington on one of its octagonal sides. Another panel shows a shield with thirteen stars and stripes. Thirteen stars also ring around the base of the podium.<br />Two by three-foot sized bronze memorial plaques are just below the statue on the front and back sides of the granite pedestal.<br />END OF DESCRIPTION <br />
Located in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., Folger Park is one of the largest parks in the Capitol Hill area. In 1885, the park was memorialized and named after Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury. Folger Park is nestled in a quiet residential area, and can be enjoyed by nature lovers and city slickers alike. It includes trees, paved asphalt walkways, and "fountain benches" fashioned after the 1935 "Drinking Fountain and Bench" plan.
Located in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, D.C., Folger Park is one of the largest parks in the Capitol Hill area. In 1885, the park was memorialized and named after Charles J. Folger, Secretary of the Treasury. Folger Park is nestled in a quiet residential area, and can be enjoyed by nature lovers and city slickers alike. It includes trees, paved asphalt walkways, and "fountain benches" fashioned after the 1935 "Drinking Fountain and Bench" plan.
Nathanael Greene was a revolutionary war general known as "The Fighting Quaker." His army harried British General Charles Cornwallis in his campaign through the Carolinas, weakening the expeditionary force and contributing to Cornwallis's eventual surrender at Yorktown.Sculptor: Henry K. BrownInscriptionsSacred to the Memory of Nathanael Green Esquire a Native of the State of Rhode Island who Died on the 19th of June 1786Late Major General in the Service of the U.S. and Comma
(296 words)<br />The Nathaniel Greene statue is located in the heart of Stanton Park at Maryland and Massachusetts Avenues, NE. The park has a rectangular shape and is bounded by 4th Street to the west and 6th Street to the east. North and south of the park are the respective westbound and eastbound lanes of C Street, NE. All sides have walkway access into the park with traffic lights, as well as at the park's four corners.<br />The statue is in the center of the park, about a one hundred-yard walk in from the east and west sides, and about fifty yards from north and south sides.<br />A thirty-foot wide circular cement walkway surrounds the statue area, and thirty-foot-deep grass lawn area within the walkway runs up to the base of the statue. Six twenty-five-foot tall shade trees encircle the perimeter of the statue area, with ample bench seating around the space.<br />The thirteen-foot bronze equestrian statue is pointed to the northeast. It features the general in full uniform, his sheathed saber hanging at his left flank. His right-hand points straight ahead, while his left hand holds the reins. His head is turned out to the left, as if gesturing to someone as he points. The statue and striding horse sit atop an oblong cement pedestal, about thirteen feet long and twenty feet height with rounded ends, and has the following inscriptions on its two longer sides:<br />Sacred to the Memory of Nathanael Green Esquire a Native of the State of Rhode Island who Died on the 19th of June 1786<br />Late Major General in the Service of the U.S. and Commander of their Army in the Southern Department<br />The United States in Congress Assembled<br />In Honor of His Patriotism<br />Valor and Ability Have Erected This Monument<br />END OF DESCRIPTION<br />
One of the oldest public parks in Washington, D.C, the land was designated as a public park on the original 1791 L'Enfant plan for the city. During the Civil War, a temporary hospital, known as "Lincoln Hospital" was constructed on the site for wounded Union soldiers. Following the war, the army removed the hospital and Congress appropriated funds to improve the park with flowers, trees and pathways. Then as now, it remains one of the most popular city parks on Capitol Hill
Lincoln Park is a rectangular area bound by E Capitol St NE to the north, 13th St. SE to the east, E Capitol St. SE to the south, and 11th St. SE to the west. Grassy areas shaded by large trees ring a rectangular plaza in the center that features two statues. The Emancipation Monument, depicting Abraham Lincoln standing by a kneeling black man, is approximately 346 feet (105 m) east of 11th St following the a sidewalk that bisects the park from 11th St. to the monument. From the Emancipation Monument, the Mary McLeod Bethune Statue is approximately 300 feet (100 m) east. From the Bethune statue, dual sidewalks continue east to 13th street, approximately 215 feet (66 m) to the sidewalk on the 13th Street side of the park.
Marion Park is bounded by 4th & 6th Streets and at the intersection of E Street and South Carolina Avenue. This is a fitting address for a park memorializing distinguished soldier Francis Marion who hailed from South Carolina and bravely fought during the American Revolution. Today, the site provides hours of serenity with the variety of trees and other vegetation. There is a play area available in one quadrant of the park that is easily accessible for toddlers.
Marion Park is bounded by 4th & 6th Streets and at the intersection of E Street and South Carolina Avenue. This is a fitting address for a park memorializing distinguished soldier Francis Marion who hailed from South Carolina and bravely fought during the American Revolution. Today, the site provides hours of serenity with the variety of trees and other vegetation. There is a play area available in one quadrant of the park that is easily accessible for toddlers.
Ms. Bethune was a Civil Rights leader from the 1930s until 1955. She founded the National Council of Negro Women, a powerful organization that united a variety of African American women's groups for Civil Rights. The Mary McLeod Bethune memorial in Lincoln Park was the first memorial to an African American built on public land in Washington, DC, and it was the first portrait statue of an American woman on a public site in the city. Sculptor: Robens BerksInscriptionsfrontMar
(526 words) Located one mile east of the U.S. Capitol in Lincoln Park, at Massachusetts Avenue and North Carolina Avenue NE is the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial. The memorial is closest to 13th Street NE at the eastern end of the park. Lincoln Park has a rectangular shape and is bounded by 11th Street NE to the west and 13th Street NE to the east. North and south of the park are the respective westbound and eastbound lanes of East Capitol Street, NE. All sides have walkway access into the park with traffic lights, as well as at the park's four corners. There is also street access at 12th Street SE on the south side and 12th Street NE on the northern side. The memorial sits in an open approximately 100-yard wide cement plaza area. 30-foot tall shade trees surround the plaza in a three-foot elevated grassy area on both sides. The plaza is lined with benches and flower-designed cement planters throughout. Behind the memorial at both end corners of the park are playgrounds guarded by black metal fences. The bronze sculpture depicts Bethune as an older African-American woman standing next to two black children, a girl and a boy. They are both reaching out for a furled piece of paper she is holding in her left hand. In Bethune's right hand she supports herself with a cane. The figure of Bethune is seventeen feet tall. The girl stands at about four feet and the boy five feet tall. All three figures are sculpted in a very rough and acned style, as if formed from globs and chunks of clay. The memorial faces west, and Bethune appears to be looking directly at the Abraham Lincoln statute of the Emancipation Memorial, who faces back at her from about 200 yards east in the park. An 85- yard wide and 200-foot long grass field sits in between the two memorials. Just beyond the field from the Bethune Memorial are four cement steps which span the entire plaza and lead up to the Emancipation Memorial. The sculpture sits atop a hexagonal white concrete base of about one foot in height. Beneath that, a circular concrete base of about one foot supports the entire structure. Raised bronze lettering on the stucco face of the hexagonal base of the statue reads: "Mary McLeod Bethune 1875-1955 Let her works praise her. Just beneath this, also on the concrete base, is a bronze plaque with a raised border replicating wheat of about 18 inches by 10 inches. The sides of the hexagonal concrete memorial base all feature bronze signs along the top edge of about 4 inches high by five feet across in length. Raised text on them reads: I Leave You Love * I Leave You Hope * I Leave You the Challenge of Developing Confidence in One Another * I Leave You a Thirst for Education * I Leave You A Respect for the Use of Power * I Leave You also a Desire to Live Harmoniously with Your Fellow Man * I Leave You Faith * I Leave You Racial Dignity * I Leave You Finally a Responsibility to Our Young People * Mary McLeod Bethune * END OF DESCRIPTION
Indicated on Pierre L'Enfant's original plan for the city of Washington in 1791 as No. 5, Stanton Park is one of the larger Capitol Hill Parks. The four acres bound on its northern and southern sides by C Street between 4th and 6th Streets in the Northeast quadrant of the city were named for President Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin Stanton following the Civil War.
Stanton Park is one of the larger Capitol Hill Parks. The four acres bound on its northern and southern sides by C Street between 4th and 6th Streets in the Northeast quadrant of the city were named for Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. The statue featured at the center of the park depicts Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene, and it is surrounded by formal walkways and flower beds, a play area, benches, and bulletin boards.
