Francis Scott Key Memorial

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Francis Scott Key Memorial is a small park in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. It sits at 34th Street and M Street NW and covers about 0.77 acres (3,104 square meters). The park was established in 1993 and is managed by the National Park Service as part of Rock Creek Park, though it isn’t directly connected to that park. It is near the Francis Scott Key Bridge and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath. The land was bought under the Capper-Crompton Act of 1930 by the National Capital Park Commission. The park was created to honor Francis Scott Key, author of The Star-Spangled Banner, and was donated to the National Park Service by the Francis Scott Key Foundation in 1993. At the center is a brownstone brick plaza with a limestone pergola draped in wisteria. A bronze bust of Francis Scott Key by sculptor Betty Mailhouse Dunston stands there, with interpretive signs along the sides. The park also flies a 15-star, 15-stripe replica of the flag that flew over Fort McHenry when Key wrote the song.