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Dist of Columbia National Parks
National parks, monuments, natural reserves, historic sites of Dist of Columbia. Pages with photos are indicated with (pictures).

Anacostia
Washington
Baltimore-Washington way
Washington
Battleground
Washington
Capitol Hill s
Washington
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (pictures)
Potomac River
Constitution Gardens
Washington
Ford's Theatre
Washington D.C.
Fort Dupont
Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Washington
Frederick Douglass
Washington
George Mason Memorial
Washington
Kenilworth & Aquatic Gardens
Washington
Korean War Veterans Memorial
Washington
Lincoln Memorial (pictures)
Washington
Mary Mcleod Bethune Council House
Washington
National Capital s-Central
Washington
National Capital s-East
Washington
National Mall (pictures)
Washington
National World War II Memorial
Washington
Old Post Office Tower
Washington
Pierce Mill
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
President's - White House (pictures)
Washington
Rock Creek
Washington
Sewall-Belmont House
Washington
The Old Stone House
Washington
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Washington

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Thomas Jefferson Memorial

Washington, DC

Thomas Jefferson-political philosopher, architect, musician, book collector, scientist, horticulturist, diplomat, inventor, and third President of the United States-looms large in any discussion of what Americans are as a people. Jefferson left to the future not only ideas but also a great body of practical achievements. President John F. Kennedy recognized Jefferson's accomplishments when he told a gathering of American Nobel Prize winners that they were the greatest assemblage of talent in the White House since Jefferson had dinner there alone. With his strong beliefs in the rights of man and a government derived from the people, in freedom of religion and the separation between church and state, and in education available to all. Thomas Jefferson struck a chord for human liberty 200 years ago that resounds through the decades. But in the end, Jefferson's own appraisal of his life, and the one that he wrote for use on his own tombstone, suffices: "Author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.