Last year, Donald Trump issued an authorization of a 2021 Executive Order commanding that a Garden of Heroes in Washington for the 250th Anniversary of the Independence of the United States be built. Congress appropriated $40 million to fund the Garden. A list of people to be honored has been released. When it was announced, the Garden was supposed to be completed by July of 2026 for the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. By the Fall of 2025, the White House announced that the Garden would not be completed until later in the president’s term.
The Garden would have paths leading to themed exhibits of life-sized statues of the greatest heroes of the United States as picked by a Trump-appointed commission. It will be within West Potomac Park.
Here are the statues that have been approved for the Garden for people active during the lead up to the Civil War, the war itself, and Reconstruction:
Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Henry Clay, Joshua Chamberlain, David Farragut, Samuel Colt, Samuel Morse, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Emily Dickinson, Julia Ward Howe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth,
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