Move over National Mall, Shaw has a Lincoln statue of its own

In a city that has countless statues and memorials honoring presidents, it’s hard to compete with the one that sits overlooking the National Mall.

The statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial may be 30 feet tall and weigh 170 tons, but he is just sitting and looks to be thinking.

The newest presidential statue in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood is unlike most depictions of Lincoln in marble or on canvas, because he is actually doing something.

Installed in front of the African American Civil War Museum on Friday is a statue depicting the 16th president signing the Emancipation Proclamation.

Stanley Watts, the artist behind the statue, said sculpting the 6-feet tall, 600-pound statue was so meaningful.

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