George Mason Memorial

IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape

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The George Mason Memorial is a National Memorial in West Potomac Park in Washington, DC, the capital of the United States.

It commemorates the work of George Mason, an important Founding Father of the United States, the Virginia Declaration of Rights wrote and participated as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 in Philadelphia, but is often regarded as "forgotten founder ".

Mason, an anti- federalist, has the Constitution of the United States is not signed, because this has not abolished the slave trade and, in his opinion, the individual citizens are not sufficiently protected from the government. He was also known as the " reluctant politician ", as was also the title written by Robert A. Rutland biography.

The monument was decided by the Law 101-358 on 10 August 1990. A plot of land near the Jefferson Memorial was selected. The monument consists of a 22 m long wall with a larger than life statue that Mason sitting cross-legged and shows a round pool of water. The architect was Faye B. Harwell and the sculptor was Wendy M. Ross. The first sod was turned on 18 October 2000. The monument was inaugurated on 9 April 2002.

The George Mason Memorial is managed by the National Park Service.

George Mason Memorial

George Mason Memorial