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| Location | Washington, D.C., United States |
| Coordinates | 38°53′24″N 77°1′22″W / 38.89000°N 77.02278°W[1] |
| Area | 6,546.92 acres (26.4944 km2) 6,482.78 acres (26.23 km2) federal, (includes National Capital Parks-East) |
| Established | 1965 |
| Visitors | 29,721,005 (in 2013)[2] |
| Governing body | National Park Service |
National Mall and Memorial Parks (formerly known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the National Park Service (NPS) encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. Federally owned and administered parks in the capital area date back to 1790, some of the oldest in the United States. In 1933, they were transferred to the control of the National Park Service. These parks were known as the National Capital Parks from their inception until 1965. The NPS now operates multiple park groupings in the D.C. area, including National Capital Parks-East, Rock Creek Park, President's Park, and George Washington Memorial Parkway. National Mall and Memorial Parks also provides technical assistance for the United States Navy Memorial.[3][4]
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List of parks, memorials and monuments
Official units administered
- Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
- Constitution Gardens
- Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, including Petersen House[5]
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- Korean War Veterans Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- National Mall
- Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Park
- Thomas Jefferson Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- Washington Monument
- National World War I Memorial[6]
- National World War II Memorial
Other squares, circles, triangles, memorials, and parks
Source:[7]
- African American Civil War Memorial
- Albert Einstein Memorial
- American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial
- Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain
- Benjamin Banneker Circle
- Benjamin Banneker Park
- Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott Hancock statue[8]
- Columbus Circle
- Columbus Fountain – Union Station Plaza
- Daniel Webster Memorial
- District of Columbia War Memorial
- Doctor John Witherspoon statue
- Dupont Circle
- East Potomac Park including Hains Point[9]
- Edmund Burke statue
- Edward J. Kelly Park
- Edward R. Murrow Park
- Farragut Square
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Stone[8]
- Franklin Square
- Freedom Plaza[8]
- George Mason Memorial
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Memorial
- Holodomor Ukrainian Holocaust Memorial
- James Monroe Park
- John Ericsson Memorial
- National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
- Logan Circle
- Mahatma Gandhi Memorial
- Martin Luther statue
- McPherson Square
- Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II
- Milian Park
- Nuns of the Battlefield (Civil War Nurses Memorial)
- Pan American Annex grounds – located between Constitution and Virginia Avenues, NW and 18th and 19th Streets, NW
- Pulaski Park[8]
- Judiciary Square Plaza[8]
- Old Post Office Tower[8]
- Pershing Park[8]
- Rawlins Park
- Rigo Walled Park
- Samuel Gompers Memorial
- Samuel Hahnemann Monument
- Scott Circle
- Seaton Park
- Sheridan Circle
- Temperance Fountain and statue[8]
- Southwest Waterfront Park (Titanic Memorial)
- Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- Statues of the Liberators
- Taras Shevchenko Memorial (Ukrainian Independence Park)
- Thomas Circle
- United States Navy Memorial[8][10]
- Victims of Communism Memorial
- Vincent R. Sombrotto Memorial Park
- Walt Whitman Park
- Washington Circle
- West Potomac Park[9]
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: National Mall
- ^ "City Park Facts Report" (PDF). The Trust for Public Land. February 2014. p. 30. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
- ^ "The National Parks: Index 2012-2016" (PDF). www.nps.gov/. National Park Service. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ "National Park Service Index Addendum (2016-2017)" (PDF). www.nps.gov/. National Park Service. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
- ^ Also a part of Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Park
- ^ Within Pershing Park
- ^ "Reservation List: The Parks of the National Park System, Washington, DC" (PDF). www.nps.gov. National Park Service; Land Resources Program Center; National Capital Region. Retrieved 1 May 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Within Pennsylvania Avenue National National Historic Site and Park
- ^ a b Existing park transferred in 1933
- ^ US Navy with technical assistance from the National Park Service"
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