Hello again and welcome back to round two of our monuments and memorials lessons! This next statue is that of Major General James B. McPherson, made by an American artist named Louis Rebisso.

Mr. McPherson can be seen on top of a bronze horse in…………………………………..  Do you want to take a guess?  Okay, I will just tell you.  It can be found in McPherson Square in D.C.! I also discovered that the statue was put in place with the help of his friends in the Society of the

Hello, and I hope you are all doing well on this WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY! I want to go back a few days to recap my interesting weekend in D.C. We went to a travel show featuring many different places and cultures. It was so exciting to take part in this and we even went on a virtual reality ride. If you get seasick, I do not recommend it! We took a nice walk back to the Metro and I wanted to share this little history lesson I researched once we got back home.

The first statue we saw was the Samuel Gompers Memorial.  It is a bronze statue and it is also listed in the National Register of Historic places.  You can find it at the intersetion of 10th Street, L Street, and Massachusetts Avenue in Washington. Mr. Gompers was born in England and later became the American