https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod A timeline detailing the initial creation, various expansions, major events, and key figures in the lifetime of the National Mall. en-us 2021-01-07 06:37:03 UTC 2025-10-20 04:51:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3db.png jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123060772 Washington Nat'l Monument Society is created to oversee construction of the Washington Nat'l Monument (WNM). https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=2805493&id=CC647F47-1DD8-B71C-07DB5CA656C6D7D0&gid=CC377732-1DD8-B71C-072375FE4F401A15]]> 2021-01-25 17:12:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123060772 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123098606 Cornerstone of the Washington Monument is laid & construction is begun. https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=2805493&id=CC647F47-1DD8-B71C-07DB5CA656C6D7D0&gid=CC377732-1DD8-B71C-072375FE4F401A15]]> 2021-01-25 17:19:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123098606 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123106956 Congress takes over construction of the Washington Nat'l Monument after the WNMS stalls out on its construction several times over.]]> 2021-01-25 17:20:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123106956 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123120484 Washington, DC is chosen as nation's capital; Pierre L'Enfant's plan is drafted, but he is fired before his plan can be realized. His thoughts lay the groundwork for all further development of the National Mall, but they are adapted and changed several times over.
https://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/documents/mallpaavhistory.pdf]]> 2021-01-25 17:22:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123120484 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123126802 Various canals & bridges are built around DC to realize George Washington's vision of a major port city for the capital.]]> 2021-01-25 17:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123126802 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123132281 Various land reclamation plans are proposed to turn mudflats around the rivers into park space.]]> 2021-01-25 17:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123132281 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123153999 Dredging & reclamation of areas around the Potomac River begins and will persist for over thirty years, during which river navigation and sanitation are both majorly updated.]]> 2021-01-25 17:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123153999 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123162290 Congress passes bill to reserve the land that would later become the Eastern and Western Potomac Parks "for the recreation and pleasure of the people" and ]]> 2021-01-25 17:30:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123162290 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123168558 L'Enfant's plan is officially replaced by the McMillan Plan for the Nat'l Mall, which reserves the land for memorial use and has a heavy emphasis on more traditional architecture.]]> 2021-01-25 17:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123168558 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123174145 Various QOL updates to the mall are made in this time frame, incl. new motorized vehicle roads and the first cherry trees.]]> 2021-01-25 17:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123174145 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123177689 Congress introduces a resolution to authorize construction of a Thomas Jefferson memorial (TJM).]]> 2021-01-25 17:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123177689 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123192863 After the original architect for the TJM (John Russel Pope) dies, the project is handed to his associates and construction is started. https://www.nps.gov/media/photo/gallery-item.htm?pg=2946803&id=0A1E128B-1DD8-B71C-075152D2B46094CA&gid=096A7661-1DD8-B71C-07FCAE0DED5F4FC1]]> 2021-01-25 17:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123192863 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123205270 The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is officially dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. Over the coming years it will be put under construction several times to deal with various structural issues.]]> 2021-01-25 17:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123205270 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123295695 The Washington National Monument is completed fifty years after it is initially authorized. (https://www.nps.gov/wamo/learn/historyculture/index.htm)]]> 2021-01-25 17:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123295695 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123355385 In 1850, with public interest in the mall renewed, Andrew Jackson Downing is hired to make the mall the national park, incl. lots of natural landscaping. (https://heald.nga.gov/mediawiki/index.php/Andrew_Jackson_Downing)]]> 2021-01-25 18:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123355385 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123375809 L'Enfant begins construction on the President's house before he is fired later in the year.]]> 2021-01-25 18:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123375809 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123385641 2021-01-25 18:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123385641 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123912666 Downing is killed in 1852 and his plan is only followed in the rebuilt President's House and the Smithsonian. None of the manuscripts for other parts of the plan survive.]]> 2021-01-25 19:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123912666 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123924262 During WWI, the American Navy established temporary offices in the National Mall; these were ordered removed in 1971 by Richard M. Nixon, who then authorized a park to be built there. This would later become the Constitution Gardens.]]> 2021-01-25 19:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123924262 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123935991 On a small island in the lake of the Constitution Gardens, a memorial to all those who signed the Declaration of Independence is dedicated.]]> 2021-01-25 19:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123935991 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123949990 The George Mason Memorial is dedicated on 9 Apr 2002 to honor the founding father who wrote the first draft of the Declaration, then withheld his signature from the final draft because it didn't abolish slavery. ]]> 2021-01-25 19:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1123949990 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124009106 2021-01-25 20:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124009106 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124013207 The Lincoln Memorial is dedicated eight years after construction began and is mostly complete upon opening.]]> 2021-01-25 20:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124013207 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124044633 The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in 1995, on the 42nd anniversary of the war's armistice.]]> 2021-01-25 20:19:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124044633 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124055603 Under a panel of 12 veterans of the Korean War appointed by Reagan, a memorial honoring the veterans of the "Forgotten War" is authorized.]]> 2021-01-25 20:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124055603 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124061111 Ground is broken for the memorial after one plan was chosen out of over 500 submitted to the memorial's advisory panel.]]> 2021-01-25 20:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124061111 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124079742 In 1900, the John Paul Jones Park begins life as a Civil War memorial.]]> 2021-01-25 20:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124079742 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124087583 In 1916, the park containing the Civil War memorial (that would later become the John Paul Jones Park) is expanded to include a Revolutionary War memorial thanks to a naval-battle-related donation from the Long Island DAR.]]> 2021-01-25 20:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124087583 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124094788 The park that would later be known as the John Paul Jones Park is expanded again, now including the Dover Patrol Naval War Memorial.]]> 2021-01-25 20:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124094788 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124102353 Due to the variety of naval-based monuments and memorials on park grounds, the park's name is officially changed to John Paul Jones Park to honor the man considered to be the father of the American navy. (https://www.nycgovparks.org/photo_gallery/full_size/19050.jpg)]]> 2021-01-25 20:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124102353 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124186939 A memorial to the inventor, engineer, and Civil-War-era naval genius is authorized.]]> 2021-01-25 20:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124186939 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124194859 (https://www.nps.gov/nama/planyourvisit/john-ericsson-memorial.htm)]]> 2021-01-25 21:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124194859 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124203505 With both L'Enfant and McMillan plans falling out of public favor and various historical monuments falling into disarray under the rapid metropolitanization of post-WWII DC, a new plan for the National Mall - referred to as the NPS Master Plan - began. (https://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/documents/mallpaavhistory.pdf)]]> 2021-01-25 21:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124203505 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124226501 A plan to incorporate the McMillan and L'Enfant plans with the modernization of the NPS Master Plan is proposed. (https://www.nps.gov/nationalmallplan/documents/mallpaavhistory.pdf)]]> 2021-01-25 21:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124226501 jjunginger19 https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124730228 The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is dedicated. It owes its existence to the McMillan plan, which suggested its current placement. (https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/ulysses-s-grant-memorial)]]> 2021-01-26 01:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jjunginger19/elot2kpvd4jauvod/wish/1124730228