Detailed plans in place for careful removal of Lee statue

When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to the site where the towering monument was erected as a tribute to a Confederate hero. Now, 130 years later, conservation experts who plan to relocate, yet preserve, the statue face the intricate logistics of disassembling and transporting it to a storage facility. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced plans to remove the 13-ton (12-metric ton) sculpture in June, after the death of George Floyd sparked a nationwide protest movement over racial inequality and police brutality.

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