Constitution Gardens
- Washington, DC
photo: Mdy66 CC BY-SA 4.0
Why go there?
Constitution Gardens is a park located within the boundaries of the National Mall. An oasis in the midst of a city landscape, the 50 acres of the park were originally beneath the Potomac River. Near the end of the nineteenth century, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initiated a dredging project that created the land that became Potomac Park. Constitution Gardens has a small pond, which contains the Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence on an island open to pedestrians.
