On October 27, 1887 a copper time capsule was placed in the cornerstone of the Robert E. Lee monument’s pedestal in Richmond, Virginia. What was inside??
Records from the Library of Virginia suggest that 37 Richmond residents, organizations, and business contributed about 60 objects to the capsule, real, tangible artifacts of both Richmond and America’s history.
On June the 4, 2020, however, Virginia governor Ralph Northam announced that the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond,along with all other statues along monument avenue that had been erected to commemorate Civil War Veterans would be removed and on September 8, 2021 crews from the city executed the governor’s orders bringing the history of Monument Avenue to a close.
In an effort to further destroy the historic integrity of the site, Governor Northam announced plans to replace the 134-year old time capsule embedded in the pedestal with a new time capsule that was deemed more representative of modern culture in Virginia and more palatable to modern society as a whole.
Thankfully crews were unable to locate the original time-capsule and so it remains in it’s rightful place as a part of Virginia and our countries history.
But what was inside?
This newspaper article from Late October of 1887 provides a list of the articles placed in the copper box.
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governor northam has no Honor as a man.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't use northam and Honor in the same sentence.
DeleteWell he is a politician
DeleteI wouldn't use Northam and man in the same sentence!
Delete“Lee was the noblest American who had ever lived and one of the greatest commanders known to the annals of war.” Winston Churchill
ReplyDeleteHow infuriating we live in a time dominated by fools.
The purpose of history is to learn from it sop you do not make the mistakes of the past. Liberals see history as something to erase and to cancel.
ReplyDeleteIgnorant bastards...no better than apes.
ReplyDeleteDitto
DeleteBet there is good content to learn from in them articles, letters, proceedings programs listed. True men walked then, true men.
ReplyDeleteNow not so much now.
Why has God put us here right now if not to act. If not to cleanse the world of this evil?
The evil, it has names, addresses, and routines. FIND, FOLLOW, FIX.
Saber 7
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Degenerate culture gonna degenerate. As Aaron Clarey put it: "Enjoy the decline;" just laugh at it all.
ReplyDeleteThe de-Confederate purge of the Commonwealth continues BTW. Yesterday in the mail, was a notice from Fairfax County asking for citizen input about re-naming parts of U.S. Rts. 29 & 50 as they are currently named the Lee Highway and Lee-Jackson Highway respectively.
ReplyDeleteI cant upload the pic, but it is a picture of the 50 year reunion of Gettysburg in 1913. 2 white haired old soldiers wrapped arm and arm around eachother each managing to still fit in their Blue and Gray
ReplyDeleteSeen the pics and read the stories. WW1 WW2 former enemy soldiers in the final chapters of life, made peace and found solace. They fought with honor, gallantry, and respect. To have some scumbag in politics do this is shameful. I could let more profanities fly, as a student of history, but they were there, respect the man not the uniform
Damn sad.