On September 10, 2013, the City of Jacksonville designated the James Weldon and John Rosamond Johnson Birth Site, located at the northwest corner of Lee and Houston Streets as a landmark site; and named it the Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park. The property was the location of the family home of James Weldon Johnson and his brother John Rosamond Johnson, in which both brothers were born, raised and lived during a significant portion of their lives; and is also the location where the brothers composed Lift Every Voice and Sing, originally composed to commemorate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday but later became known as the Negro National Anthem.  James Weldon Johnson later attained additional national prominence by being appointed the United States Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua; and likewise, John Rosamond Johnson went on to achieve additional notoriety in the vaudeville scene by composing or assisting in more than 200 musical compositions made popular through vaudeville performances in New York’s Broadway Boulevard venues and Carnegie Hall.