In July 2020, President Trump signed an executive order on Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes which, in part, assembled a task force “to establish a statuary park named the National Garden of American Heroes (National Garden).” In the few months since this order, the Task Force—which comprises representatives from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for Humanities, among other federal departments—has been campaigning members of the public for names of potential American heroes to be added to the garden, and county officials and governors for possible locations for the National Garden. As of this writing, responses to the request for locations have come in from over 40 states and territories.

To learn more about the project, visit the American Heroes page on the Department of the Interior website.