The National Adams Family Memorial
Abigail Adams, 1766 by Benjamin Blythe (Library of Congress)
The Adams Memorial Foundation is currently planning the Adams Family Memorial; a national memorial to John Adams and his family. The Foundation is responsible for securing the memorial site, fundraising, and the construction of the memorial. Presently, the Adams Memorial Foundation is in the early stages of planning for the memorial. Obviously, building a national memorial is no easy task and will take years to plan and build. In fact, it has been almost five years since Congress voted to create the Adams Memorial Foundation in June 2001.
This website is dedicated to providing background information for the Adams Family Memorial. This website also provides a brief history of several members of the Adams family.
John Adams, 1783 by Izack Schmidt (Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery)
Sculpture of Abigail and young John Quincy Adams, Quincy, MA. Dedicated 2001. (Photo by raig MacDonald)
"I long to hear that you have declared an independancy—and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776 (Transcription by the Massachusetts Historical Society)
Website Created by Craig MacDonald
The Decleration of Independence (Courtesy of the National Archives).
