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Monument Avenue: Robert. E. Lee Monument

It took nearly twenty years to erect a monument to Robert E. Lee in Richmond, and it came down in less than two.

Jefferson Davis Statue

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A Chicken in Every Plot

NAGPRA Repatriation

Undocumented Property

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Monument Avenue: Jefferson Davis Monument

The United Daughters of the Confederacy were the main supporters of the Davis Monument and, in 2018, it was deemed the “most unabashedly Lost Cause in its design and sentiment.”

Monument Avenue: J.E.B. Stuart Monument

It took 42 years for the City of Richmond to unveil “a suitable monument and inscription” to James Ewell Stuart. The J.E.B. Stuart Monument stood in Richmond for 113 years.

Monument Avenue: Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson Monument

The Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson Monument that went up on Monument Avenue in 1919 was the second sculpture to him in the City of Richmond.