American spy Captain Nathan Hale became the first famous martyr of the American Revolution when he was captured and later executed by the British in 1776. At the gallows, Hale gained renown through his final words which appear around the circular…

Dedicated in 1877, this bronze equestrian memorial honors Major General Nathanael Greene, a Revolutionary War general and commander of the Southern Department of the Continental Army. Greene sits erect upon his horse, holding the reins in his left…

This statue of Benjamin Franklin was donated by Stilson Hutchins, founder of the Washington Post, who gave it to the city in the name of America's newspaper publishers. As such, not only did the statue previously stand near the former location of…

Born in Scotland, John Witherspoon came to the colonies in 1768 to serve as the first president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. In June of 1776, Witherspoon arrived in Philadelphia as a newly-elected delegate to the…

After designating Washington D.C. as the nation’s capital, honoring those that helped to found the country became an important task. Throughout the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries, both the government and private funders erected…