Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence

The Memorial to the 56 Signers of the Declaration of Independence is a memorial depicting the signatures of the 56 signatories to the United States Declaration of Independence. It is located in the Constitution Gardens on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The memorial is accessible to the public by crossing a wooden bridge onto a small island set in the lake between Constitution Avenue and the Reflecting Pool, not far from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

History
Public Law 95-260 was passed by Congress in 1978 to create a memorial to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The memorial is a gift from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and consists of 56 stone blocks, each with a facsimile of the signer's actual signature, his occupation, and his home town. It was dedicated on July 4, 1984, exactly 208 years after the Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence.

Memorialized signers
Fifty-six delegates to the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence and are honored at this Memorial:

President of Congress
 * 1. John Hancock (Massachusetts)

New Hampshire
 * 2. Josiah Bartlett
 * 3. William Whipple
 * 4. Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts
 * 5. Samuel Adams
 * 6. John Adams
 * 7. Robert Treat Paine
 * 8. Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island
 * 9. Stephen Hopkins
 * 10. William Ellery

Connecticut
 * 11. Roger Sherman
 * 12. Samuel Huntington
 * 13. William Williams
 * 14. Oliver Wolcott

New York
 * 15. William Floyd
 * 16. Philip Livingston
 * 17. Francis Lewis
 * 18. Lewis Morris

New Jersey
 * 19. Richard Stockton
 * 20. John Witherspoon
 * 21. Francis Hopkinson
 * 22. John Hart
 * 23. Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania
 * 24. Robert Morris
 * 25. Benjamin Rush
 * 26. Benjamin Franklin
 * 27. John Morton
 * 28. George Clymer
 * 29. James Smith
 * 30. George Taylor
 * 31. James Wilson
 * 32. George Ross

Delaware
 * 33. George Read
 * 34. Caesar Rodney
 * 35. Thomas McKean

Maryland
 * 36. Samuel Chase
 * 37. William Paca
 * 38. Thomas Stone
 * 39. Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia
 * 40. George Wythe
 * 41. Richard Henry Lee
 * 42. Thomas Jefferson
 * 43. Benjamin Harrison
 * 44. Thomas Nelson, Jr.
 * 45. Francis Lightfoot Lee
 * 46. Carter Braxton

North Carolina
 * 47. William Hooper
 * 48. Joseph Hewes
 * 49. John Penn

South Carolina
 * 50. Edward Rutledge
 * 51. Thomas Heyward, Jr.
 * 52. Thomas Lynch, Jr.
 * 53. Arthur Middleton

Georgia
 * 54. Button Gwinnett
 * 55. Lyman Hall
 * 56. George Walton