Statues & Monuments

Jean Antoine Houdon’s statue inside the Virginia State Capitol is the only sculpture done of George Washington from life.

A years-long effort on three continents culminated in the March 31, 2007, unveiling of the Richmond Slavery Reconciliation Statue, not far from Richmond’s former slave market in Shockoe Bottom.

A metal reproduction of the box in which Henry ‘Box’ Brown escaped Richmond can be viewed along Richmond’s Canal Walk.

The 9-foot-tall bronze “Headman” statue on Brown’s Island depicts a 19th-century James River boatman and commemorates blacks’ contributions to early commerce in Richmond.

See the J.E.B. Stuart monument, erected in the area where he was mortally wounded in the the Battle of Yellow Tavern.