Lincoln Park is the largest urban park protected as part of the Capitol Hill Parks umbrella, which oversees four large urban parks and 59 connector spaces as part of one National Park Service unit.

The park was originally developed in 1791 as part of city planner Pierre L'Enfant's original design for Washington, D.C. and was named in honor of President Abraham Lincoln in 1867. A statue of Lincoln, originally dedicated in 1876 with a keynote address by Frederick Douglass, depicts the president holding a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation out to a freed African American. Other monuments within the park include a memorial for activist Mary McLeod Bethune, the first monument in the District of Columbia to honor an African American woman.

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