Crews wrapping up the removal Monday of a giant pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond found what appeared to be a second and long-sought-after time capsule, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said.
The governor tweeted photos of a box being removed from the site and said conservators were studying the artifact.The governor said the box would not be opened Monday. It wasn’t immediately clear what kind of condition any contents might be in.The development marked the latest turn in a months-long search for the capsule, which contemporaneous news accounts indicate was placed during a cornerstone-laying ceremony in 1887 attended by thousands of people.
The box was then covered in bubble wrap and transported by vehicle from the site for further study, he said.The Lee statue, which depicted the general atop a horse, was erected on the soaring pedestal in 1890 in the former capital of the Confederacy. Its removal in September came more than a year after Northam ordered it in the wake of protests that erupted after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Crews searched for the time capsule then, digging and removing some massive stones, but were unable to locate it.
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