The last Confederate statue in Richmond, Va., was removed on Monday, and the remains beneath it of Ambrose P. Hill, the Confederate lieutenant general who was memorialized, were set to be transferred to a cemetery, an official said.
Local news channels broadcast the removal of the statue, which had stood on a pedestal at the busy intersection in Richmond, a city of 230,000, since 1892. The arm of a giant crane swung over the monument and plucked the statue before pivoting and depositing it onto a flatbed truck.
A small crowd watched the removal of the statue, Robert Steidel, the deputy chief administrative officer of operations for the City of Richmond, said in a telephone interview on Monday.
“The City Council has decided that the statue is going to go to the Black History Museum,” Mr. Steidel said. Officials at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia could not be reached on Monday.
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