dcMemorials.com << Previous -- Home -- Next >> Full list of all 1,000+ -- Indexed by Subject -- Indexed by Location -- Indexed by Artist Buy THE Definitive Guide to D.C. Sculpture The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C. Settlers (Original Patentees) of the District of Columbia Memorial near the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. by Carl Mose The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution donated the Settlers of the District of Columbia Memorial in April 1935 "as a way of teaching history." The simple granite shaft stands near the sidewalk along Fifteenth Street. Its purpose is to remember the original eighteen patentees "prior to 1700 whose land grants embraced the site of the federal city." A patentee is someone to whom a grant is given. In this case, the grant was ownership of land that became the District of Columbia. Each side of the monument contains a relief panel carved with a symbol of the early pioneers' agricultural pursuits. On the east side is a tobacco plant, on the south a wild turkey, on the west a stalk of corn, and on the north a fish. The names of the original landowners are inscribed on the base. Source: NPS.gov (as a work of the Federal Gov't it is in the public domain) Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011050.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index With the Aeronautics in the background (pediment, top right) More info about this attraction & others nearby           Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control #78250020 Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.dcMemorials.com Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011030.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index With the Boy Scout Memorial in the background (left side) More info about this attraction & others nearby           Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control #78250020 Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.dcMemorials.com Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011040.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index TO THE ORIGINAL PATENTEES PRIOR TO 1700 WHOSE LAND GRANTS EMBRACE THE SITE OF THE FEDERAL CITY THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS APRIL 25 1936 More info about this attraction & others nearby           Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control #78250020 Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011060.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index With the Mining in the background (pediment, top right) Click here to purchase photos Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011080.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Click here to purchase photos Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011100.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Click here to purchase photos Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011120.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011130.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index TO THE ORIGINAL PATENTEES PRIOR TO 1700 WHOSE LAND GRANTS EMBRACE THE SITE OF THE FEDERAL CITY THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN COLONISTS APRIL 25 1936 Click here to purchase photos Location index - Home - 00740_0000011160.jpg recorded 2006-7 - Top - Full index Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.dcMemorials.com

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