The Capitol Hill Parks include several park areas east of the U.S. Capitol. Included in this group are Folger, Lincoln, Stanton, and Marion Parks, the Eastern Market and Potomac Avenue Metro stations, and several smaller land parcels such as Seward Square, Twining Square, the Maryland Avenue Triangles, the Pennsylvania Avenue Medians, and 59 inner-city triangles and squares.
Join the National Park Service at the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial in Lincoln Park on July 13. The memorial will be rededicated in a ceremony hosted by the National Park Service, with support from the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) and Bethune-Cookman University.
The National Park Service (NPS) will overseed and aerate the grass in the center panel of Lincoln Park starting this spring. To help ensure the project’s success, the NPS will close the center panel of the park from May 3 to July 8.