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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,923 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:42 AM Jul 2020

Richmond: Crews preparing to remove Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statue in Libby Hill Park

That statue is up there.

BREAKING

UPDATE: Crews preparing to remove Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statue in Libby Hill Park

From staff reports 1 hr ago



Bob Brown/Times-Dispatch

8:30 a.m.: A large crane has arrived at Libby Hill Park to remove the statue from atop the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument.

Prior to that crews stopped a man trying to pull down plastic fencing that's surrounding the monument. He left fairly quickly afterward.

7:29 a.m.: Traffic barrels and road closed signs have been set up Wednesday morning around the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Libby Hill Park in Richmond's Church Hill neighborhood.

It appears that crews are preparing to remove the Confederate statue from that monument.

Dedicated in 1894, the 100-foot memorial honors Confederate enlisted men and sits at 29th Street and Libby Terrace.

(This is breaking news. This story will be updated.)
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Richmond: Crews preparing to remove Confederate Soldiers and Sailors statue in Libby Hill Park (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 OP
They are moving fast underpants Jul 2020 #1
I don't think anybody was about to scale that and topple it. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #2
Just drove by AP Hill monument about an hour ago underpants Jul 2020 #4
The event is being liveblogged. Or livetweeted. Whatever. mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2020 #3

underpants

(186,612 posts)
4. Just drove by AP Hill monument about an hour ago
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 09:50 AM
Jul 2020

We may find out if he’s really buried under that thing.

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