The National Park Service, below President Joe Biden, has introduced that it intends to take away the statue of William Penn from Welcome Park in Philadelphia — the historic residence of the founding father of Pennsylvania, and an necessary early colonial determine.
In a press release Friday, the National Park Service said (emphasis added):
The National Park Service proposes to rehabilitate Welcome Park to present a extra welcoming, correct, and inclusive expertise for guests. Welcome Park was designed by the internationally acclaimed design agency Venturi & Scott Brown Associates. The park is positioned on the positioning of William Penn’s residence, the Slate Roof House, and is called for the ship, Welcome, which transported Penn to Philadelphia. The design and building of Welcome Park was funded by the Independence Historical Trust and was accomplished in 1982.
The proposed rehabilitation of Welcome Park contains expanded interpretation of the Native American historical past of Philadelphia and was developed in session with representatives of the indigenous nations of the Haudenosaunee, the Delaware Nation, Delaware Tribe of Indians, the Shawnee Tribe, and the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. The reimagined Welcome Park maintains sure facets of the unique design akin to the road grid, the rivers and the east wall whereas including a brand new planted buffer on three sides, and a ceremonial gathering house with round benches. The Penn statue and Slate Roof home mannequin will likely be eliminated and never reinstalled. In a separate and future effort, new exhibit panels will likely be put in on the south website wall to exchange the Penn timeline.
The public is invited to submit feedback on this proposed design for the rehabilitation of Welcome Park for a 14-day interval from January eighth – twenty first, 2024 by way of the National Park Service’s Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) at https://parkplanning.nps.gov.
Penn is a uniquely revered determine in American historical past. A Quaker, he handled the Native Americans of the realm with respect and deference. However, he additionally owned slaves, which has led to the elimination of his title from some historic websites.
Philadelphia’s Independence Hall describes Welcome Park, and Penn’s significance to the founding of the United States:
Welcome Park was constructed by the Friends of Independence National Historical Park in 1982 to have fun the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of Pennsylvania by William Penn in 1682. It was designed by world-renowned architectural agency Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. It is called for William Penn’s ship, the Welcome. It is positioned on the positioning of the Slate Roof House, Penn’s residence in Philadelphia from 1699-1701, throughout the road from the City Tavern. This out of doors “museum” celebrates the lifetime of the colony’s founder. It was right here as Proprietor of Pennsylvania that Penn penned the rules for metropolis and state authorities. It was right here too that Penn promulgated the Charter of Privileges, guaranteeing spiritual liberty and civil freedoms to the inhabitants of “Penn’s Woods.” About 4 rating and 7 years later the Continental Congress drafted the United States Constitution which owes a lot in spirit to Penn’s Charter.
In his now-infamous remarks on the Charlottesville riot in 2017 — throughout which he truly condemned the neo-Nazis and white supremacists, opposite to the Democratic Party’s continued propaganda — then-President Donald Trump warned that the elimination of Confederate statues can be adopted by the elimination of statues of American heroes — a prediction that continues to be fulfilled.
Biden kicked off his 2024 reelection marketing campaign final week in Pennsylvania. He has not introduced plans to rename the state.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the writer of the 2021 e-book, “The Zionist Conspiracy (and how to join it),” now up to date with a brand new foreword. He can also be the writer of the latest e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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