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August 20, 2020

Removing Gen. Lee statue will require a big crane and cutting it into 3 pieces to fit under bridges

  • B.R. Howard Conservation says the monument's pedestal may contain a time capsule.
    • By DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Steve Helber [enlarge]
    The 27-foot-tall bronze statue sits on a 40-foot-high pedestal in Richmond, Virginia.

    RICHMOND, Va. — 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 the towering monument was erected as a tribute to a Confederate hero.


     
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