Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is a memorial building located on the west end of the national mall in Washington, D.C. It is a United States Presidential Memorial constructed in remembrance of Abraham Lincoln.

The memorial is heavily damaged but still standing. Many of its walls are blasted open, and the head on the Lincoln statue is missing. When the player first arrives at the location, it is occupied by a gang of slavers out of Paradise Falls led by Leroy Walker. The player may not approach the memorial as the slavers will shoot. According to the slavers, it is kept under guard as to prevent slaves from getting any ideas about freedom, as well as making the grounds for slavery weaker in the Capital Wasteland. One slaver even mentions that the site might even be demolished to work away at the slave society's knowledge of Lincoln.

The head is in the Temple of the Union and is returned if Head of State is completed by helping Hannibal Hamlin. After that, escaped slaves will set up a settlement in the Lincoln Memorial.

Appearances
The Lincoln Memorial appears only in Fallout 3.

Behind the Scenes

 * If you look closely at Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, inscribed in the northern wall of the memorial, the letter "F" in "Future" is slightly different than the other "F"s. This is because it was accidentally carved as an "E" originally and had to be corrected.

I had the most fun with the mesmetron as a good character here. Mezzing Walker made him explode the first ime, then i reloaded the auto save and he tried to abolish slavery, and failed. So sad. None the less, I turned every slaver against each other. In one instance, I had made him go all calm and stuff, still killed him. it is actually Ironic that you can enslave the slavers. I tried, but I just made him hostile again. I put all of the slavers bodies at the feet of Lincoln and one by one, decapitated them. After a while, I went back to find that Walkers corpse was still there. Weird.

Related Quests
Head of State

Other Notable Loot
If you have chosen to assist the runaway slaves during the Head of State quest and have killed all of the slavers, you will be able to steal from them without losing Karma. There is a Nuka-Cola Quantum located in the Memorial Maintenance Room on the ground floor on a metal shelf.