Lincoln Park (Washington, DC)
Lincoln Park is a city park in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC.It is also sometimes referred to as Lincoln Square . The park was designed by Pierre L'Enfantt and was designed to be the meridian from which all distances in North America are measured. But this role was filled by the prime meridian .
Initially used as a landfill , the park was chosen as the site of Lincoln Hospital during the Civil War . Walt Whitman visited the patients there several times.
The park is located one mile east of the Capitol and five blocks northeast of Eastern Market . It is operated by the National Park Service. The park is bounded to the west by 11th Street. The park is bounded by 13th Street to the east and East Capitol Street to the north and south .
There are two famous sculptures in the park : the Emancipation Memorial , the first statue in honor of Abraham Lincoln , and the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial .
Web links
- Lincoln Park on the National Park Service pages
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lost Capitol Hill: The Zero Milestone. TheHillsHome, November 9, 2009, accessed December 1, 2012 .
- ^ National Park service Lincoln Park page.
- ↑ BETHUNE, Mary McLeod: Memorial at Lincoln Park in Washington, DC in website of dcmemorials.com by M. Solberg, accessed December 1, 2012.
Coordinates: 38 ° 53 '28.4 " N , 76 ° 58' 53.9" W.