"Discovering Richmond Monuments"

📔DISCOVERING RICHMOND MONUMENTS: A History of River City Landmarks Beyond the Avenue.
🗺️MAP: Managed by @RigganRVA

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

“Arthur Ashe's statue turns 30 on Friday. It wasn't an easy road to Monument Avenue.”

MAP📍: https://t.co/YKM3n9PlQ1

https://t.co/y6fdXnpHMH [@RichmonderNews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

“Bill, if successful, would remove Confederate monuments from Virginia’s Capitol Square”

MAP of Richmond statues: https://t.co/tRmz7XQcTM

https://t.co/94MRzFqpjr [@MercuryVirginia]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

“A giant cardinal sculpture is headed for a dead-end street near Lamplighter Coffee Roasters”

https://t.co/UBfMsztRZs [@RichmonderNews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

"@CityRichmondVA wants to bring back once-vandalized @RichmondPolice statue"

MAP: https://t.co/tRmz7XPF4e

https://t.co/YxGQX3Xq3H [@RTDnews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

“Is this Fan monument an ode to heroic efforts or an act of 'fictional self-glory'?”

“Discovering Richmond’s Monuments”was one of the sources for the article.

https://t.co/KgLYAj7pbA [@RichmonderNews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

.@vmfamuseum removes front-lawn “Arches and Column” sculpture due to structural instability

https://t.co/8XV3Uv2gQt [@michaelpinRVA @RichmonderNews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

“Atlantic Sturgeon” sculpture unveiled at the James A. Buzzard River Education Center for @JRAvirginia

Now added to the Discovering Richmond Statues & Monuments map https://t.co/tRmz7XQcTM

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

.@RichmondPolice memorial vandalized and out in storage in 2020 could be headed to Police Academy

https://t.co/E8SYVpQm18 [@SarahVogelsong @RichmonderNews]

[🇺🇸Phil Riggan @RigganRVA]

"Richmond's Columbus statue is headed to upstate New York"

"In June 2020, at the height of the George Floyd protests...the Columbus statue was one of the first to be removed in the city."
https://t.co/aTqfFz607w [@EmHolterNews @RTDnews] cc @RVAstatues

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

‘Strides’ at Libbie Ave and Patterson Ave added to Richmond Statues & Monuments map https://t.co/YKM3n9PlQ1

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

Richmond removes the A.P. Hill statue, the last Confederate monument owned by the city https://t.co/im7kIwObIM [@RTDnews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

A.P. Hill may finally be heading to his fourth and hopefully final resting place.
https://t.co/QBAkQN3EpX [@RTDnews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

https://t.co/GymO04TZrq

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

UPDATED: Google map of Richmond statues and monuments.

There are even fewer left than I thought. If you see some changes that need to be made, please let me know.

https://t.co/YKM3n9PlQ1

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

"A group claiming to be descendants of [General A.P.] Hill says the statue belongs to them. It filed a motion in Richmond Circuit Court this month asking for the monument, which it hopes to relocate."

https://t.co/Pts0bsOH0i [@RTDnews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

UPDATED: Google map of Richmond statues and monuments.

There are even fewer left than I thought. If you see some changes that need to be made, please let me know.

https://t.co/YKM3n9PlQ1

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

"After the monuments in Richmond: What Richmond's historic Monument Avenue looks like now"

What should Richmond do with Monument Avenue now?

https://t.co/lgxRz0piGs [@RTDnews]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

UPDATED MAP: Richmond Statues & Monuments - https://t.co/YKM3n9PlQ1

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

Emancipation and Freedom Monument on Brown’s Island in Richmond, Va. Designed by Thomas Jay Warren, “features two 12-foot bronze statues representing a man, woman, and infant newly freed from slavery.” https://t.co/8NfMLl8Oc3

[🇺🇸Phil Riggan @RigganRVA]

Remains of Confederate General A.P. Hill could be interred for fourth (and final?) time and his statue could be moved away from Laburnum Ave and Hermitage Rd intersection in Richmond.
https://t.co/sfUoz77iA4 [@CulpeperSE]

["Discovering Richmond Monuments" @RVAStatues]

UPDATED: Richmond Statues and Monuments map to show Byrd statue removed from @VirginiaCapitol https://t.co/tRmz7XPF4e

[🇺🇸Phil Riggan @RigganRVA]

"A statue of the segregationist governor and U.S. senator stood outside the state Capitol since 1976...work crew lifted and loaded a 10-foot, bronze Byrd onto a flatbed truck headed for storage, as if lowering a body into a casket for burial." https://t.co/J9G4xnhwXr [@RTDnews]