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Settlers (Original Patentees) of the District of Columbia Memorial near the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
by Carl Mose (click name for more of that artist's work)
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The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution donated the Settlers of the District of Columbia Memorial in April 1935 "as a way of teaching history." The simple granite shaft stands near the sidewalk along Fifteenth Street. Its purpose is to remember the original eighteen patentees "prior to 1700 whose land grants embraced the site of the federal city." A patentee is someone to whom a grant is given. In this case, the grant was ownership of land that became the District of Columbia. Each side of the monument contains a relief panel carved with a symbol of the early pioneers' agricultural pursuits. On the east side is a tobacco plant, on the south a wild turkey, on the west a stalk of corn, and on the north a fish. The names of the original landowners are inscribed on the base.
Source: NPS.gov (as a work of the Federal Gov't it is in the public domain)
With the Aeronautics in the background (pediment, top right)
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With the Boy Scout Memorial in the background (left side)
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0000500/00740_0000011030 (added ca. 2006)
TO THE ORIGINAL PATENTEES
PRIOR TO 1700 WHOSE LAND
GRANTS EMBRACE THE SITE OF
THE FEDERAL CITY THIS MONUMENT
IS ERECTED BY THE
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN
COLONISTS APRIL 25 1936
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0000500/00740_0000011040 (added ca. 2006)
With the Mining in the background (pediment, top right)
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0000500/00740_0000011060 (added ca. 2006)
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TO THE ORIGINAL PATENTEES
PRIOR TO 1700 WHOSE LAND
GRANTS EMBRACE THE SITE OF
THE FEDERAL CITY THIS MONUMENT
IS ERECTED BY THE
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN
COLONISTS APRIL 25 1936
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0000500/00740_0000011130 (added ca. 2006)
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0000500/00740_0000011160 (added ca. 2006)
See James M. Goode's
'Outdoor Sculpture' (paperback p137 Item #C-6)
(He excluded it from 'Washington Sculpture')
Medium: Granite
Artist: Carl Mose (click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: History, American
Location: E & 15th Sts. NW Washington, D.C.
Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange - Blue) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 78250020 (dcMem ID #740 )
| Goode's "Outdoor Sculpture" has this as one of its 327 entries but it isn't one of the 503 entries in "Washington Sculpture." As of 2009, the monument was still in this location. |
Links & other sources
ADC Greater Washington, DC Street Map Book (106)
'Who is That Man Anyway?' on Settlers (27)
President's Park (White House) website
NPS.gov List of Classified Structures on Settlers Memorial
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