Signed here, on May 31, 1918, this document declared the intent of Czechs and Slovaks to form a new democratic nation in Europe, free from outside rule. Later that year, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, an author of the agreement, became the 1st president of Czechoslovakia.

Marker is at the intersection of 7th Street and Penn Avenue, on the right when traveling south on 7th Street.

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