Monument Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia

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[central_va]

Monument Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia, is a premier example of the Grand American Avenue city planning style. The first monument, a statue of Robert E. Lee, was erected in 1890. Between 1900 and 1925, Monument Avenue exploded with architecturally significant houses, churches and apartment buildings. A tree-lined grassy mall divides the east- and westbound sides of the street and is punctuated by statues memorializing Virginian Confederate participants of the Civil War Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and Matthew Fontaine Maury, as well as Arthur Ashe, a Richmond native and international tennis star.

[central_va]

I am posting pictures from Monument Ave. in Richmond (while it is still legal).

Jefferson

Lee

Hill

Jackson

Stuart

[ilovesarah2012]

ISIS will remove them cheap.

[central_va]

Jefferson

[Sasparilla]

...ISIS will remove them cheap...

Why do we need ISIS to do it when we have fringe lunatic liberals standing in line to do the job? Jousting windmills is their new trademark.

[smoothsailing]

What about Arthur Ashe? Will the #BlackLivesMatter mob give him a pass?

Arthur Ashe - Monument Avenue, Richmond Virginia

[central_va]

No you don’t understand that one will be protected like no other.

[Sans-Culotte]

I don’t even get the Arthur Ashe monument. I would have thought it would show him in tennis attire. Instead, he appears to be playing “keep away” with some kids’ books.

[WayneS]

The statues were recently defaced with “Black Lives Matter” grafitti.

[WayneS]

Probably not. It has Bible verse engraved in its base.

[central_va]

I thought is was “Mater”.

[WayneS]

OOPS!

It appears it was “only” Jeff Davis’ statue that was defaced.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/jefferson-davis-statue-on-monument-avenue-vandalized/article_e50edf4e-ff1d-5c54-8106-2c3220ca110d.html

[TYVets]

It is going to cost a lot of money to turn all the courthouses around so the front door faces North rather than South.

That's the way the democrats built them

[antidisestablishment]

BLACK LIVES

[sphinx]

Arthur Ashe deserved better. He was a classy guy, and a great tennis player. I always admired him. It was appropriate for Richmond to honor him since he was a native son, and one of the very few worthy ones that Richmond has produced in the modern era. By all means, celebrate him.

But Monument Avenue was the wrong place.

[mass55th]

"Will the #BlackLivesMatter mob give him a pass?"

They probably don't even know who is was.

[mass55th]

is=he

brain fart

[jaz.357]

Today, Richmond woke up to this! June 25, 2015. Jefferson Davis Monument, Monument Ave.

[MagnoliaB]

Seen them many times. Lived a couple of blocks over from Monument Ave. in the 70’s. Use to play frisbee behind the Daughters of the Confederacy.