1. From the Lincoln Memorial to the Robert E. Lee Memorial is 3 miles. If you were walking at .025 miles per hour, how long would it take to get from one place to another?
2. The Washington Monument is .75 miles, how many yards would it be?
3. The Civil War ended 1865,how many years ago was that?

The following word problems were contributed by Alicia ('03).

4. If the Lincoln Memorial was finished 1917 how many years from 2003 has it been built?

5. There are 107 acres in the Lincoln Memorial.  If 1 hectare (a metric unit) equals 2.471 acres, about how many hectares are in the Lincoln Memorial?

6. There are 36 Doric columns representing the number of states the time of Lincoln's death.  How many more Doric columns should be there now?

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  Scavenger Hunt

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1. How many Doric columns are there surrounding the Lincoln Memorial?

2. What do the Doric columns stands for?

3. What was the purpose of the Lincoln Memorial?

4. What two addresses, stated by Lincoln, are carved in marble inside the memorial?

5. Is Lincoln standing or sitting in his memorial?

Answers

1. The Lincoln Memorial was built to represent our 19^th president.

2. The Lincoln Memorial was finished in 1917.

3. The Lincoln Memorial covers 257 acres.

4. It has 36 Doric columns surrounding the statue of Lincoln.

5. There were 44 states in the Union at the time the memorial’s construction ended.

6. At Lincoln memorial, he is sitting in a chair.

Answers to Fact or Fiction

This memorial was built to honor our 16^th president.  Talk of the memorial began immediately after his death in 1865, but it was awhile after his death before the construction ever began.  Congress ordered the memorial to be built in 1867 to honor President Lincoln but it was delayed until the early 1900s.  It cost more than 300,000.   The Lincoln Memorial monument is 107 acres, in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C., built during 1914-17.  The building was designed by Henry Bacon and styled after the Greek temple Parthenon.  It has 36 Doric columns, each one representing a state in the Union at the time of Lincoln's death.  It was opened on May 30, 1922 on Memorial Day. 

Inside the building is a heroic statue of Lincoln designed by Daniel Chester French and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers of New 

York.  It is 19 feet tall and 19 feet wide and is made of 28 separate blocks of Georgia marble.  The murals were painted by Jules Guerin, and represented major events during Lincoln's life.  The names of the 48 states in the Union are carved in the exterior attic walls. The walls are made of Colorado Yule marble, and the tripods are pink Tennessee marble.

The Lincoln Memorial is staffed from 8 p.m. to midnight, every day except for Christmas. The National Park Service is open to answer questions and educational materials can be purchased at the bookstore, which is on the chamber level.

Answers to Word Problems. 

1. 120 hrs

2. 1,320

3. 136 years ago

4. A=86 years

5. A=44 hectares

6. A=14 columns

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. 36

2. The states in the Union at time of Lincoln's death.

3. To recognize our 16^th president.

4. The Gettysburg Address and The 2^nd inaugural Address.

5. Sitting.

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Answers to Fact and Fiction

1. Fiction, he was our 16^th president.

2. True

3. Fiction, it covers 107 acres.

4. True

5. Fiction, there were 48 states.

6. True

    

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