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The Robert E. Lee Monument in Richmond, Virginia, was the first installation on Monument Avenue in 1890, and would ultimately be the last Confederate monument removed from the site. [4] Before its removal on September 8, 2021, [ 5 ] the monument honored Confederate Civil War General Robert E. Lee , depicted on a horse atop a large marble base ...
The Robert E. Lee Monument was located in the traffic circle at the intersection of Monument Avenue and Allen Street. Dedicated in 1890, the Lee Monument was the first and the largest of the street's monuments. [25] It was removed on September 8, 2021 by the Commonwealth of Virginia following a state Supreme Court ruling. [26]
A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, is expected to be taken down on Wednesday as a symbol of racial injustice, more than 130 years after it was erected in ...
The enormous pedestal where the Robert E. Lee monument in Virginia’s capital resided for over 130 years until September has been completely removed and hauled away. Every piece of the 40-foot ...
After the J. E. B. Stuart statue was removed, the Robert E. Lee statue became the last remaining Confederate monument located on Richmond's Monument Avenue. [182] Stonewall Jackson Monument: Richmond: Virginia June 3, 2020 July 1, 2020 Removed by City of Richmond Planned removal of the four Confederate monuments on city land. [181] [183]
When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to the site where ...
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to announce plans for the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond's Monument Avenue
Robert E. Lee Monument (Richmond, Virginia), NRHP-listed (removed on 8 September 2021 at the direction of the state government). [ 82 ] Robert Edward Lee Sculpture ( Charlottesville, Virginia ), NRHP-listed (removed by the city in July 2021, stored in an undisclosed location until it was finally melted in October 2023).