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Lincoln Park is the largest Capitol Hill Park and features monuments to two of the nation's greatest leaders: President Abraham Lincoln and educator and Civil Rights leader Mary McLeod Bethune.
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Lincoln Park is the largest urban park located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was known historically as Lincoln Square. From 1862 to 1865, it was the site of the largest hospital in Washington, DC: Lincoln Hospital.
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In 1867, after Lincoln's assassination, Congress authorized the grounds to be a memorial, the first public site to bear Lincoln's name. It features monuments to two of the nation's greatest leaders, Lincoln and Civil Rights Activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune.
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From the dedication of the Emancipation Monument in 1876, to the use of the park for Civil Rights rallies in the 1960s, to the dedication of the Mary McLeod Bethune memorial in 1974, Lincoln Park has been significant to the African American community of Washington, D.C.
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May 19, 2023 · During the Civil War, the square was used as a hospital for wounded troops, whom poet Walt Whitman visited on occasion. When Congress officially named the park Lincoln Square in 1867, it was the first site to bear the name of the assassinated president.
