Who is memorialized in a statue in your town or city?

My hick hometown in Tennessee has a statue of Davy Crockett in the town square. Wasn't even born there, just passed through on his way to getting killed at the Alamo.

 

Wedgewood: It's funny you mention that because I live where Crockett WAS born, and we don't have a statue. There are plenty of parks, markers, schools, etc. nearby, but not an actual statue.

For the record, Crockett was not born on a mountaintop in Tennessee; it was a river bottom.

 

Many things were invented in Worcester, MA - the birth control pill, the shopping cart, barbed wire, modern rocketry and turtle sex

 

Unincorporated Danville, Ala., part of the Decatur statistical geogrphic area, has a statue of Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. In your face, Adolf!

http://jesseowensmemorialpark.com/wordpress1/

 

We're going to need some updates on this thread.

 

Mobile has statues of:

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville (founder of Mobile)
Joe Cain (founder of Mardi Gras)
Raphael Semmes (Confederate admiral/blockade runner)

Interestingly enough, for years there was also an Admiral Semmes Hotel, but it was re-named a couple of years ago as "The Admiral." Not sure if that is for historical sensitivity reasons or just modern re-branding such as turning "Federal Express" into "FedEx."

There is also a Hank Aaron Park on the site of his birthplace with a marker that is not really a statue:



The minor-league baseball stadium is named for Aaron as well, and the roads leading up to it are named for Satchel Paige and the Bolling brothers (former major-leaguers Milt and Frank).

 

Pittsburgh has two for Fred Rogers, one of Mr. Rogers himself and another ....well, it's got one of the sweaters he was known to wear.

 

Jim Thome.

Frank Robinson.

Larry Doby.

Moses Cleaveland.

Soon, Superman.

 

Arthur Ashe

 

Capt. Parker of the Minute Men, killed on the green where the Revolution began, April 19, 1775. Additional fun fact. Almost alone among Massachusetts towns, Lexington has no memorial to its Civil War dead. That's because it had almost none. The town was getting rich as Boston's dairy farm center, and purchased hundreds of substitutes so it's men could stay home and milk cows.

 

Fucking the poor: an American tradition.

 

"Here's a statue of Moses Cleveland, he's the guy who invented Cleveland, YEAH!!"