Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-20
RICHMOND WINS NAME
OF MONUMENTAL CITY
Year by Year Memorials 10
Virginia Heroes Grow
in Number.
Majority of Thirty-Two shafts, 1nd
Figures Honor Southern Heroes
Washington Monument Most Cost
ly-iRury Lnat to lie RccoRnixed.

ffSurcs honor southern Heroes,
Washington Monument Most Cost
ly-MRury Inst to he Rccopnixed.
Already famous az city OF monu-
mcnts, Richmond continues year by
year 10 add to the imposing total
OF memorials. And OF the thirty
two such memorials in the city, all
except five are In honor OF outstand-
ing figures in the Confcdcracy.
While there arc less than 400 coucs-
TRAN monuments in the entire world
and approximately only 100 in the
United States. Richmond can boast OF
four OF that type. And In tho Craw-
iord monument To Washington In
capitol Square. Richmond has what
Is ranked az the second largest
equestrian monumcn; IN tho world.
whiie The Houdon statute OF Wash
inSton IN the State Capitol stand,
alone in works OF its kind in America.
T." Add Another.
with the laying OF II corncr-stonc
10 Matthew FOntaine Maury this
week Richmond for the first time In
It's history hunors Confcdcra,n
naval officer with "a monument While
this Is true. the old city OF Man
chester now an Integral part OF
Richmond. many years ago honor.d
tho naval heroes Of the United state
Including several OF the Confederate
navy, by naming streets In their
honor. while tho old Bainbridre
school on the Southside has been re-
chr!stcnod the Maury School in honor
OF ia" man whose name and fame
are To be pcrpctuatcd in bronze and
stone here this week
Richmond has thirty-two separate
memorials This includes six monu-
incn,s in Capitol Square. two In Mon
roe Park, nine in Hollywood. four
on Monument Avenue. and other
scattered ones. Ia addition to the
hirty-two monuments and statucs.
there are six bronze figures on the
Washington monument and several
busts in ih" rotunda Of the Capitol.
TWO buildings are memorials. one, the
battic Abbey. to the Confederate vet
Grams. and the other. Monumental
church. To the cishty-odd mon ana
women who's" lives were snuned out
III IN" thcat"r holocaust Of 1872
-Four ETurstrInn Monuments.
IN" equestrian monuments are TO
Washington, Lee. JACKSON and Stuart.
Tho Washington monument is by iar
the costli"st and hes, known one.
started in lsis. II was not completed
until after the War B.tween the
states, and cost approximately s.6o.-
900
Two shafts and ono pyramid hav.
been erected TO tho Southern COL
di"rs. Tho shafts are the Soldiers
and sailors Monument on LIBBY
ia! and the Oakwood Monument The
pyramid is in Hollywood. where also
VIII be found memorial TO Con
fedcratc women and an arch In mem
DRY Of Confederate officers
Jackson is honored By two monu-
nents, one In Capitol Square and tho
other on Monument Avenue. The
first WAS the gift OF Englishmcn.
while the second was completed only
recent. being tho work OF william
Stcvcrs. Richmond sculptor. Davis
is honorcd in bronze in Hollywood
and by an imposing shat, on Monu-
m"nt Avenue.
Monument 10 IIowIi.cr,.
Tho only separate organization
from Richmond honorcd by "a mem
oval is TIA. Richmond iinwitzers'
Battalion y heroic figure OF an ar
tiiieryrnan Was erected some twenty
years ago in triangle at Harrison
Street and Park Avenue.
nv ihN hb- ~ TIC corner STONE or
the lee Monument was feature Of
Tho first general gathering OF Con-
fcdcratc Veterans In Richmond in
October. 1887 jean Antoine Mercie,
tho French sculptor. did the statue.
The unvcilinS took place on MAY 80.
1890. following Il parade with Cen
cral Fitz Lee as chief marshal. Nearly
a score OF Confederate generals were
on hand for the ceremony. which was
one OF tho most imposing ever held
in Richmond or the entire South.
The Stuart and Davis Monuments
were added TO tho Monument Ave
nue group in 1907. when both were
unveiled during the great Confed-
crate Reunion IN which Northern
military commands were In the line
OF march as a special mark OF honor
;o the two Southern chicftains. The
stuart Monument was tho work OF
Fred Moynihan. The Davis Monu-
mcnt was designed by w. c. holland
and T.. V. Valentine modelled the
figures Of Davis and the allcGorical
figures.
The Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
May 30 1894 General Fitz Ice was
chief marshal and General Wade
Hampton assisted in tho ceremonies.
1t Is from the base OF this monu-
mcnt that the annual salute to the
naval dead is fired on May 10 after
n floral float is launched in the
river.