The Lincoln Memorial, on the extended axis of the National Mall in Washington, DC, is a memorial to United States President Abraham Lincoln.
The first stone of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place on Lincoln's birthday, February 12, 1915 and the monument was dedicated on May 30, 1922 attended by the former President's only surviving child, Robert Todd Lincoln.
Like the other monuments on the National Mall, the Lincoln Memorial is administered by the National Park Service. It is open to the public from 8 a.m. until midnight, except December 25. On August 28, 1963, the monument grounds were the site of one of the greatest political rallies in American history, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which proved to be a high point of the American Civil Rights Movement. In front of the building, numerous speeches were given, including Martin Luther King's greatest, "I Have a Dream".
The Lincoln Memorial is shown on the reverse of the United States penny and on the back of the U.S. $5 bill.
Did you know?
- On the left section of this national monument is President Lincoln's Second Inaugural Speech. In the first column of this speech the word "future" is actually misspelled and engraved into the stone of this architectural marvel. The word, instead, reads "euture."
- On the steps proceeding up to the monument is the marked tile upon which Martin Luther King Junior proclaimed his "I Have A Dream" speech. It is estimated that approximately 1 million people came to witness this speech and that the crowd stretched back to the entrance of the present World War II Memorial.
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