Crook Walk 06 - Arlington National Cemtery - 2012 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Crook Walk 06 - Arlington National Cemtery - 2012 / Tim Evanson
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Standing in Section 2 of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. I'm looking downhill at Crook Walk. The road is McClellan Avenue, named for Civil War General George McClellan.John Custis purchased an 1,100 acres of forested land on the Potomac River north of the town of Alexandria, Virginia, in 1778. This land became the Arlington Estate. He died three years later, leaving the estate to his small son, George Washington Parke Custis. George Washington Parke Custis died in 1857, leaving the Arlington estate and house to his eldest daughter, Mary Custis Lee -- wife of General Robert E. Lee.The Arlington Estate was seized by the U.S. Army in 1861 after the outbreak of the Civil War, and turned into a military cemetery in 1864.In 1883, General Philip Sheridan died. There was extensive controversy over the site of his grave. Some individuals wanted him buried at the Soldiers Home, where it would be accessible by more people. But other advocated for Arlington National Cemetery. Advocates of the Arlington site won the debate, and he was buried in front of Arlington House at the southeast corner of the front lawn. In 1891, Admiral David Dixon Porter died. He, too, was buried on the front lawn of Arlington House, near the northeast corner of the front lawn. General Horatio Wright -- who led the Army Corps of Engineers, helped finish the Washington Monument, and built the Brooklyn Bridge -- died in 1899. He, too, was buried on the front lawn, slightly south of Porter.Sheridan's burial at Arlington helped to elevate the cemetery into a desirable resting place for the nation's highest ranking officers. But burying officers on the front lawn of the mansion quickly became controversial. In the late 1890s, cemetery officials placed a ban on any further burials on the lawn east of the mansion.Although General George Crook had died in 1890 and was buried at a cemetery near Oakland, Maryland, his family intended for him to be reinterred at Arlington on the east slope of the lawn. The ban meant that Crook could not be interred here, however. Instead, Crook was buried east of the flower garden, and Crook Walk – a major pathway extending almost due south from the central walkway of the flower garden to what is now Memorial Amphitheater – was constructed as a memorial to him.In severe disrepair and nearly crumbling, Crook Walk was completely rebuilt in 1982. |
| 撮影日 | 2012-04-05 13:53:52 |
| 撮影者 | Tim Evanson , Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 5D Mark II , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/640) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |
| 焦点距離 | 28 mm |