Historical Markers and War Memorials in Southwest Washington, District of Columbia

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Southwest Washington, District of Columbia

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301 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Why is the Washington Monument Temporarily Closed? — Washington Monument — National Mall & Memorial Parks, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake centered in Virginia sent tremors throughout eastern North America. This seismic activity affected a number of Washington, D.C. landmarks, including the Washington Monument. National Park Service . . . — — Map (db m49459) HM

302 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Why is the Washington Monument Temporarily Closed? — Washington Monument — National Mall & Memorial Parks, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed

303 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Wingapo — Welcome to a Native Place — Native American Astronomy — Reported permanently removed

Over thousands of years, Native peoples have studied the moon as a guide for agricultural and ceremonial cycles. For the Powhatan, the month known as May was called the Corn Planting Moon. They kept time by noting the lunar cycles on notched sticks . . . — — Map (db m113954) HM

304 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Wingapo — Welcome to a Native Place — Lessons from the Sun — Reported permanently removed

The museum doors—etched with sun symbols—open to the east and greet the rising sun as do many traditional Native homes. Most Native peoples honor the sun as a life-giver and calendar, instructing when to plant, harvest, and conduct ceremonies. . . . — — Map (db m113963) HM

305 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Wingapo — Restoration of the Land — Reported permanently removed

Four hundred years ago, the Chesapeake Bay region abounded in forests, meadows, wetlands, and croplands. The National Museum of the American Indian restores these environments and is home to more than 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants . . . — — Map (db m144387) HM

306 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Witchhazel • Suhwe?t (suh-whet) — Reported permanently removed

A popular commercial remedy and facial astringent used throughout the world, witchhazel was first harvested by Native peoples in the eastern United States. The Potawatomi and Mahican tribes used witchhazel as a sedative and as an astringent, and . . . — — Map (db m49647) HM

307 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — World War II Memorial —

Here in the presence of Washington and Lincoln, one the Eighteenth Century father and the other the Nineteenth Century preserver of our nation, we honor those Twentieth Century Americans who took up the struggle during the Second World War and made . . . — — Map (db m4392) HM

308 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Yinka Shonibare MBE — b. 1962, England — Wind Sculpture VII, 2016, Steel armature with hand-painted fiberglass resin cast and gold leave —

National Museum of African Art, museum purchase with funds from Amelia Quist-Ogunlesi and Adebayo Ogunlesi, and the Sakana Foundation, 2016-11-1 Installed in collaboration with Smithsonian Gardens Like a ship's sail, Wind Sculpture . . . — — Map (db m110782) HM

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309 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Yoko Ono — American, b. Tókyo, Japan, 1993 — Wish Tree, 2007, Live tree, Gift of the artist, 2007 (07.6) — Reported permanently removed

The Wish Tree series, begun in 1996, continues Ono's interactive art tradition by inviting visitors to whisper wishes to the tree. — — Map (db m113998) HM

310 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The National Mall — Yoko Ono —

Yoko Ono American, b. Tokyo, Japan, 1933 Wish Tree for Washington, DC 2007 Live tree and mixed media Gift of the artist, 2007 (07.6) Yoko Ono has been a prolific artist and notable figure in the art world since the 1960s. . . . — — Map (db m205015) HM

311 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — A Symbol of International Friendship — National Mall and Memorial Parks — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

On March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft, Viscountess Iwa Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador to the United States, and a small group of people assembled at the Tidal Basin. There they planted the first two of more than 3,000 flowering . . . — — Map (db m93423) HM

312 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — Canada's Gift to the United States — National Mall and Memorial Parks, Canadian Maple Trees — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior; Government of Canada —

Standing before you are several of the 150 maples given to the United States by Canada in celebration of our northern neighbor's 150th anniversary (1867-2017). The maple leaf is recognized worldwide as a symbol of Canadian . . . — — Map (db m135436) HM

313 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — Japanese Pagoda — National Mall & Memorial Parks — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported missing

Admired by thousands each year, the Japanese Pagoda arrived in Washington, not as a gift from one nation to another, but as a gift from one man to another. In 1957, Ryozo Hiranuma, the Mayor of Yokohama and a visitor to Washington, DC four years . . . — — Map (db m309) HM

314 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — Japanese Stone Lantern — National Mall and Memorial Parks — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed

The Gift of Light. Presented to the city of Washington on March 30, 1954, this stone lantern symbolizes the enduring cultural partnership that re-emerged between Japan and the United States after World War II. The lantern is one of two . . . — — Map (db m37515) HM

315 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — Keeping the Cherry Trees Healthy — National Mall and Memorial Parks — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

Flowering cherry trees need constant care to keep them growing and blooming well. They are pruned once a year to remove damaged or diseased limbs. A second annual pruning shapes the trees. Soil that has been compacted – one of the great . . . — — Map (db m100155) HM

316 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — Lighting the Way — Japanese Stone Lantern — National Mall & Memorial Parks, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

Each year, the National Park Service and the National Council of State Societies conduct the Lantern Lighting Ceremony. The Embassy of Japan appoints a Cherry Blossom Princess for the occasion. As the audience counts down from five, the lantern is . . . — — Map (db m29559) HM

317 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial — National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed

“With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able . . . — — Map (db m46398) HM

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318 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — River Bottom to Parkland — National Mall and Memorial Parks — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

Where you are standing was originally the bottom of the Potomac River. The shoreline roughly paralleled 15th Street, skirted around the Washington Monument which stood almost at the river's edge, and then followed what is now the current route of . . . — — Map (db m135435) HM

319 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — The 1912 Cherry Tree Plantings — National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported permanently removed

Historic Trees. You are standing near two of the most important cherry trees in Washington, D.C. These Yoshino Cherries (Prunus x yedoensis) are among the 3,700 trees of various species that grow in East and West Potomac Park and on the . . . — — Map (db m215) HM

320 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial — Reported permanently removed

At this site will be erected the Martin Luther King, Jr .Memorial. The memorial will embody the man, the movement and the message. It will honor this 20th century visionary who brought about change through the principles of nonviolence and . . . — — Map (db m208) HM

321 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — The First Japanese Cherry Trees —

The first Japanese Cherry Trees, presented to the City of Washington as a gesture of friendship and good will by the City of Tokyo, were planted on this site, March 27, 1912. — — Map (db m54912) HM

322 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — The Gift of Friendship — Japanese Pagoda — National Mall & Memorial Parks, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

This 3,800 pound, 17th century Japanese Pagoda arrived in the Nation’s Capital in 1957 as a gift from Mayor Ryozo Hiranuma of Yokohama, Japan. Its parts packed in five shipping crates with no assembly instructions, the pagoda required the staff of . . . — — Map (db m61900) HM

323 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — The Gift of Trees — National Mall and Memorial Parks — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior — Reported damaged

Flowering cherry trees — which bloom profusely but do not bear edible fruit — were not common in the United States in 1900. American visitors to Japan found their beauty remarkable and journalist Eliza Scidmore was inspired to have these trees . . . — — Map (db m61837) HM

324 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, The Tidal Basin — Thomas Jefferson Memorial — National Historic Landmark —

This Cornerstone was laid by Franklin Delano Roosevelt President of the United States of America 1939

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man

. . . — — Map (db m83684) HM

325 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — "He Died in Harness" — 1945 / Fourth Term — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial —

Voters did not know the seriousness of Franklin Roosevelt's heart disease when they elected him to a fourth presidential term. With victory in sight, FDR made a final trip to Eastern Europe and the Middle East. At Yalta, he negotiated post-war . . . — — Map (db m197635) HM

326 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — A Carefully Crafted Image — Prologue — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial —

The original 1997 memorial barely hinted at Franklin Roosevelt's paralyzed legs - much as FDR had during his Presidency. Roosevelt's battle with polio was not a secret. The president worried that if people knew he was unable to walk, his . . . — — Map (db m197626) HM

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327 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — Air Mail —

The world's first airplane mail to be operated as a continuously scheduled public service started from this field May 15, 1918. The route connected Washington, Philadelphia and New York. Curtiss JN 4-H airplanes with a capacity of 150 pounds of . . . — — Map (db m17619) HM

328 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — Combatting Economic Depression — 1937-1941 / Second Term — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial —

Continuing to combat the Great Depression, President Roosevelt's New Deal created federal programs to stabilize the economy, provide relief, and create jobs for millions of Americans. Most Americans had never heard a president's voice before FDR . . . — — Map (db m197631) HM

329 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial — President of the United States of America — 1933 - 1945 —

In commemoration of his leadership in America’s struggle for peace, well-being and human dignity Dedicated by President William J. Clinton May 1997. — — Map (db m99914) HM

330 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — I Hate War — 1941-1945 / Third Term — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial —

World War II began in Asia and Europe in the 1930s. FDR campaigned on keeping the US out of the war while secretly providing weapons and ships to democratic Great Britain without Congress knowing. These resources helped Great Britain fight . . . — — Map (db m197632) HM

331 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — John Ericsson — AD 1803 - AD 1889 — Vision • Adventure • Labor —

Inventor and builder of the Monitor. He revolutionized navigation by his invention of the screw propeller. — — Map (db m197475) HM WM

332 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — John Ericsson Memorial — National Mall & Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

“I love this country. I love its people and its laws, and I would give my life for it just as soon as not.” John Ericsson.

Swedish-born John Ericsson revolutionized maritime navigation through the first . . . — — Map (db m17980) HM

333 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — Nothing to Fear… — 1933-1937 / First Term — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial —

A collapse in the international economic system left one in four Americans out of work. Millions more scrambled for food. New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt ran on a promise of a "New Deal for the American People." He won the 1932 presidential . . . — — Map (db m197629) HM

334 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — The United Nations — 1945 / Fourth Term — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial —

FDR believed that the failure of an international organization after World War I led directly to World War II. Under Roosevelt's urging, representatives from 26 countries signed a "Declaration by United Nations" in 1942. After FDR died, Eleanor . . . — — Map (db m197637) HM

335 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — Wartime President — 1941-1945 / Third Term — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial —

FDR said the US must be a "great arsenal for democracy." His administration sent military supplies to allies like Great Britain. After entering World War II, FDR and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill formed a close alliance. American, . . . — — Map (db m197634) HM

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336 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest Washington, West Potomac Park — Yoshino — Prunus xyedoensis —

The single white flowers grow in clusters of two to five; the tree is wide spreading. This hybrid, first noticed in 1872, is now the most cultivated of cherry trees in Japan. It is the most common species in Washington, DC. — — Map (db m178025) HM

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