Charlottesville's statue of Robert E. Lee melted

JASON ARMESTO The Daily Progress
Oct 26, 2023
Oct 26, 2023 Updated Dec 28, 2023
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Foundry workers adjust pieces of Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee atop a furnace to heat them in preparation for melting the statue on Oct. 21, 2023.

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A foundry worker places the sword from Charlottesville's bronze monument of Robert E. Lee into a heated furnace to melt it on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.

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A bronze ingot cast from melting down Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee rests on sand as it cools on Oct. 21, 2023.

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A foundry worker uses a plasma torch to cut the head of Charlottesville's bronze monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in preparation for melting the statue on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.

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Molten bronze produced by melting Charlottesville's monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is poured from a hot crucible into ingot molds on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.

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A foundry worker using a plasma torch cuts away portions of a bronze horse leg from Charlottesville's monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee as another worker steadies the piece on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2023.

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Jalane Schmidt, director of the Memory Project at the University of Virginia Karsh Institute of Democracy, embraces Olivia Gabbay at a press conference outside the Charlottesville courthouse where it was announced that the city's statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had been melted on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

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JASON ARMESTO The Daily Progress

Charlottesville’s monument of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is no more.

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