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From The Unofficial Washington Guide for Tourists. Chapter Five: Monuments
Washington is home to over 150 monuments and memorials [1], more than New York, Douglass, [2] and Ottawa, hence the nickname "District of Commemoration. [3] While it is theoretically possible to see all of the monuments and memorials on a trip to Washington, most tourists prioritize what they visit in order to fully enjoy their visit to the Marble Marvel. In this chapter, we will do our best to tell you how and when to see the most popular and most crowded sites. […]
Section 3: The Universal Emancipation Monument
This is certainly the most crowded and most popular monument that isn't on the mall. In fact, it's the most removed monuments that we discuss in this guide. Nestled within the Fort Kemble Park, within the quiet residential neighborhood of Upper Georgetown [4] This otherwise unremarkable spot became host to this striking memorial to liberation from bondage largely through happenstance. Originally this was the the pedestal to the President George McClellan Memorial, standing roughly 300 meters from the spot where he was assassinated by Pvt. Benjamin Yarborough (or perhaps Youngman) Blake[5]. However during the Third Battle of Washington in the US Civil War, the original statue was destroyed by Red Guardsmen. For years, the pedestal stood empty save for the bronze McClellan's left shoe. At the conclusion of the Southron Revolution, in order to commemorate the demilitarization of Washington and the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Manumission Act, a bronze statue of a slave breaking his bonds was commissioned. President William Jennings Bryan and Premier George A. Logan presided over the rededication of the familiar memorial we all know and love today.
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[1]IOTL, it's about 160.
[2] Birmingham
[3] No one calls it this, except for the DC tourism board
[4] IOTL, this area is called the Palisades. But it didn't get that name until the turn of the last century, so I improvised the name, since the neighborhood upriver from Georgetown
[5] This guy actually existed and his unit was stationed at that battery. I don't know what the Y stood for and neither do people ITTL https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search...oldierId=D4020183-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A
[6] This is a real statue, but it's in Barbados, commemorating emancipation in Barbados. Barbadians call it Bussa, after the leader of a slave revolt, but it wasn't explicitly modeled after Bussa
By the by, here's what the Maritime Union Blue Ensign, featured in the previous update, looks like.
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Washington is home to over 150 monuments and memorials [1], more than New York, Douglass, [2] and Ottawa, hence the nickname "District of Commemoration. [3] While it is theoretically possible to see all of the monuments and memorials on a trip to Washington, most tourists prioritize what they visit in order to fully enjoy their visit to the Marble Marvel. In this chapter, we will do our best to tell you how and when to see the most popular and most crowded sites. […]
Section 3: The Universal Emancipation Monument
This is certainly the most crowded and most popular monument that isn't on the mall. In fact, it's the most removed monuments that we discuss in this guide. Nestled within the Fort Kemble Park, within the quiet residential neighborhood of Upper Georgetown [4] This otherwise unremarkable spot became host to this striking memorial to liberation from bondage largely through happenstance. Originally this was the the pedestal to the President George McClellan Memorial, standing roughly 300 meters from the spot where he was assassinated by Pvt. Benjamin Yarborough (or perhaps Youngman) Blake[5]. However during the Third Battle of Washington in the US Civil War, the original statue was destroyed by Red Guardsmen. For years, the pedestal stood empty save for the bronze McClellan's left shoe. At the conclusion of the Southron Revolution, in order to commemorate the demilitarization of Washington and the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Manumission Act, a bronze statue of a slave breaking his bonds was commissioned. President William Jennings Bryan and Premier George A. Logan presided over the rededication of the familiar memorial we all know and love today.
[6][1]IOTL, it's about 160.
[2] Birmingham
[3] No one calls it this, except for the DC tourism board
[4] IOTL, this area is called the Palisades. But it didn't get that name until the turn of the last century, so I improvised the name, since the neighborhood upriver from Georgetown
[5] This guy actually existed and his unit was stationed at that battery. I don't know what the Y stood for and neither do people ITTL https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search...oldierId=D4020183-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A
[6] This is a real statue, but it's in Barbados, commemorating emancipation in Barbados. Barbadians call it Bussa, after the leader of a slave revolt, but it wasn't explicitly modeled after Bussa
By the by, here's what the Maritime Union Blue Ensign, featured in the previous update, looks like.
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