We had a day of firsts and this time it was the Signers Island.

In the National Mall, you walk across a bridge onto a Signers Island. The island had people lounging around enjoying the cool summer day, ducks, geese, and other critters.

The island was also the home to “A Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of the Independence”.

The memorial had 56 blocks, each with a signers name in a semi circle. The signers were grouped alphabetically by the original 13 colonies.

• Connecticut: Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
• Delaware: Thomas McKean, George Read, Caesar Rodney
• Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
• Maryland: Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone
• Massachusetts: John Adams, Samuel Adams, Elbridge Gerry, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine
• New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, Matthew Thornton, William Whipple
• New Jersey: Abraham Clark, John Hart, Francis Hopkinson, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon
• New York: William Floyd, Francis Lewis, Philip Livingston, Lewis Morris
• North Carolina: Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, John Penn
• Pennsylvania: George Clymer, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Morris, John Morton, George Ross, Benjamin Rush, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson
• Rhode Island: William Ellery, Stephen Hopkins
• South Carolina: Thomas Heyward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur Middleton, Edward Rutledge
• Virginia: Carter Braxton, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Nelson Jr., George Wythe

The selfie background shows a small portion of the memorial. We were unable to get a decent picture showing the entire memorial.