The American Revolution has a central place in the American memory as the story of the nation's founding It is covered in the schools memorialized by a national holiday and commemorated in innumerable monuments George Washington's estate at Mount Vernon was one of the first national pilgrimages for tourists and attracted 10,000 visitors a year by the 1850s. The District has 7,464 acres (30.21 km2) of parkland about 19% of the city's total area and the second-highest percentage among high-density U.S cities. This factor contributed to Washington D.C being ranked as third in the nation for park access and quality in the 2018 ParkScore ranking of the park systems of the 100 most populous cities in the United States according to the nonprofit Trust for Public Land, Further information: Slave states and free states and Abraham Lincoln and slavery, Crowds surrounding the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during the Great March on Washington 1963.
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