Robert Edward Lee (sculpture)

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201-299 2nd St NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA

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The Robert Edward Lee is an outdoor bronze equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and his horse Traveller. Commissioned in 1917 and dedicated in 1924, it is located in Charlottesville, Virginia's Emancipation Park (formerly Lee Park) in the Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The statue has become controversial. The City Council of Charlottesville unanimously wants it removed, along with a statue of Stonewall Jackson (see Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials); finding that for legal reasons it cannot be immediately removed, the Council had it shrouded in black on August 23, 2017.

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