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

In Chicago, we have statues of Washington, Lincoln, Grant, and McKinley.

We also have statues of folks like Leif Ericson, Samuel Gompers, Giuseppi Garibaldi, and James Connolly.

A good list of statues in Chicago public parks is here: http://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/facilities/fountains-monuments-sculptures/

What statues does your town or city feature?

 

My city is famous for its statues! Off the top of my head: Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, JEB Stuart, Jeff Davis, Matthew Maury, Arthur Ashe, Christopher Columbus, A.P. Hill and Mr. Bojangles.

 

Abraham Lincoln
Barry Alvarez
Pat Richter
Colonel Hans Christian Heg

 

http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/monument.htm

 

Lexington, Mass. has only one, the statue of Capt. Parker, the leader of the Minutemen killed on April 19, 1775. Oh, and there's a plaque for the aircraft carriers named the USS Lexington, too.
Fun fact: Lexington is close to the only city or town in New England with no memorial to its Civil War dead. That's because almost nobody went. The prosperous (in 1861) town of dairy farmers purchased substitutes instead.

 

Nothing nicer than a drive down Monument Avenue, looking at the second-place trophies. 8)

Just kidding. Monument Avenue east of the Boulevard is one of the more beautiful streets in the country.

 

It's unbelievable how freely the South lauds generals who fought against the USA and the rights of African Americans.

 

Col. Seth Warner, whose Green Mountain Boys finished off Gen. Burgoyne's troops in the Battle of Bennington.

Warner is immortalized in front of the Bennington Monument.

 

Was he known for his long, narrow penis?

 

They weren't fighting against the USA and African Americans, they were fighting for state's rights, gol' darn it!!!!

 

They should market this landmark to the younger generation. Maybe a Green Mountain vibrator.

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Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, yadda, yadda, yadda. Josh Gibson, Walter Johnson, Frank Howard, too. I guess Ronald McDonald if you count the playland.