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

That ball isn't close enough to the ground.

 

It's not a statue, exactly, but close...

In central London, right on St. James Street, there is a plaque marking where the legation of the Republic of Texas existed during its brief life as a nation. Located above a wine shop - and according to some sources, a brothel - this was one step below an official embassy.





Unique Places: Embassy of Texas in London

 

We used to have this cool statue of George III in New York until protesters pulled it down in July of 1776. I hear there was blame on both sides.

 

Pretty little park. NYC's oldest.

Didn't know about the King George III statue.

 

Solid #humblebrag right there.

 

I've always said there were some very fine people at Bowling Green.

The fountain is probably in the exact spot of the monument.

 

I'm amazed at the places that have monuments to Civil War traitors: New York, Chicago, Phoenix, LA.

 

What do New York and Chicago have?

 

Saw this just now.

 

Not my hometown, but there's a statue of Gen. George McClellan (a.k.a. "the Virginia Creeper") proximate to the Washington Hilton. Never quite got that one. Even weirder, the sports bar in the Hilton is called "McClellan's" ... odd to think of McClellan as being associated with an actual, you know, contest ...

 

The fascist line reminded me ... I used to live in a town that got a statue from Mussolini of a couple of boys sucking a wolf's tits.

 

This is in front of the Bennington Museum. People come in here all the time looking perplexed when they ask, basically, what the hell is going on in this scene?