National Memorials

Washington, DC

Washington Monument
Washington Monument

Washington Monument

Lincoln Memorial
Lincoln Memorial

Lincoln Memorial

Jefferson Memorial
Jefferson Memorial

Jefferson Memorial

Theodore Roosevelt Island

Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Korean War Veterans Memorial
Korean War Veterans Memorial

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial

World War II Memorial
World War II Memorial

World War II Memorial

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial

World War I Memorial

Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial

Planned:

    • National Native American Veterans Memorial
    • Adams Memorial
    • National Liberty Memorial
    • National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial
    • National Global War on Terrorism Memorial
    • National Emergency Medical Services Memorial

Northwest

My suggestions:

    • Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, AK
    • Mount St. Helens Eruption, WA

Mid-Pacific

Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, CA

Pearl Harbor National Memorial, HI

American Memorial Park, MP

My suggestions:

    • San Francisco Earthquake, CA – 1906
    • Los Angeles Chinese Massacre, CA – an estimated 17-20 Chinese immigrants were killed by whites and Hispanics, in 1871
    • Hanapēpē Massacre, HI – 16 striking Filipino sugar workers were killed by Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association and Kauai County Police Department, in 1924

Rocky Mountains

My suggestions:

    • Rock Springs Massacre, WY – an estimated 28-40 immigrant Chinese miners were killed by white miners, in 1885
    • Mountain Meadows Massacre, UT – an estimated 120–140 non-Mormons were killed by Mormons, in 1857
    • Columbine School Shooting, CO – 13 killed in 1999
    • Ludlow Massacre, CO – 20 striking coal miners killed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and Colorado National Guard, in 1914

Southwest

Coronado National Memorial, AZ

Chamizal National Memorial, TX

Oklahoma City National Memorial

Oklahoma City National Memorial, OK

My suggestions:

    • Galveston Hurricane, TX – between 6,000 and 12,000 people dead in 1900
    • Black Wall Street Massacre, OK – Greenwood District, Tulsa, OK – 39 confirmed and up to an estimated 300 African American residents were killed and their homes and businesses destroyed by a white mob, in 1921

Great Plains

Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Mount Rushmore National Memorial

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, SD

My suggestions:

    • Wounded Knee Massacre, SD – 200 women and children Lakota killed by U.S. Army due to unclear events during the disarming of Lakota after the Battle of Wounded Knee, in 1890
    • Haun’s Mill Massacre, MO – 17 Mormons killed by a anti-Mormon mob, in 1838

Great Lakes

Mackinac Bridge
Mackinac Bridge

Father Marquette National Memorial, MI

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial, IN

Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, OH

My suggestions:

    • Great Chicago Fire, IL – 1871
    • Haymarket Affair, IL – 4 strikers killed and over 70 strikers injured by the Chicago Police Department, while protesting for an eight-hour work day, in 1886
    • Kent State Shootings, OH – 4 students killed and 9 students injured by the Ohio National Guard, while protesting the Vietnam War, in 1970

Northeast

Roger Williams National Memorial, RI

Federal Hall National Memorial, NY

General Grant National Memorial, NY

Hamilton Grange National Memorial, NY

My suggestion:

    • Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, CT – 27 killed in 2012

Mid-Atlantic

Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, PA

Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, PA

Flight 93 National Memorial, PA

Johnstown Flood National Memorial, PA

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, VA

Red Hill Patrick Henry National Memorial, VA

My suggestions:

    • Lattimer Massacre, PA – 19 striking miners killed by Sheriff’s posse, in 1897
    • Blair Mountain Battlefield, WV – an estimated 50–100 coal miners were killed by Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, Logan County Sheriff’s Department, West Virginia State Police, West Virginia Army National Guard, and the United States Army (985 coal miners were arrested), in 1921

South Central

Great egret, Arkansas Post National Memorial
Arkansas Post National Memorial

Arkansas Post National Memorial, AR

My suggestions:

    • Elaine Massacre, AR – an estimated 100–237 African American’s were killed by a white mob, in 1919
    • Hurricane Katrina, LA – 1,833 killed in 2005
    • Louisville Bloody Monday, KY – 22 or more Catholic immigrants were killed by a Protestant mob, in 1855
    • Colfax Massacre, LA – an estimated 62-153 African American locals and Republican officials were killed by white supremacist during this Reconstruction Era event, in 1873
    • Emmett Till: Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market site in Money, Leflore County, MS and Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner, MS (locations of Emmett Till’s 1955 alleged whistle and murder trial, respectively)
    • Neshoba County, MS – Old Neshoba County Jail in Philadelphia, MS – location where in 1964 three civil rights workers were held before being killed, plus Mount Zion Methodist Church east of Philadelphia, where the civil rights workers where working to register to vote African Americans
    • 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, AL – 1963

Southeast

De Soto National Memorial, FL

Fort Caroline National Memorial, FL

Wright Brothers National Memorial, NC

My suggestions:

    • Wilmington Insurrection, NC – an estimated 14-300 African Americans  residents killed, an estimated 2,000 African Americans were displaced, and an estimated 20 African American and white allied elected officials were thrown out of office by a white supremacists mob, in 1898
    • Charleston Church Shooting, SC – 9 African Americans were killed by a white supremacist at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015
    • Ocoee Massacre, FL – an estimated 30-35 African Americans were killed by a white supremacists mob on Election Day in 1920
    • Ponce Massacre, PR – 19 supporters of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party were killed by the Puerto Rico Insular Police, in 1937