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
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
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
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
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.
