What historic statues if any at all, do you have in your town, and what or of whom are they of? and why?

Question

There are some statues in hometowns are erected for personal purposes...for local people that if visitors came to visit..would know absolutely nothing about!
Do you have any in your hometown,and who are they of, or what are they of, and why?


Also, for a bonus Halloween Question here:Any Statues haunted and why? What stories or "Myths" have you learned of these particular statues...where do you think the stories have come from in the first place?

(In Council Bluff's ,Iowa, there is a "black angel"...The Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial is supposedly very haunted!!)Town people clean it,and it never stays shined! It goes right to black again!!


Also, some unusual statues are of a husband's wife and of himself in different stages of their lives..are also on display(I think that is what the monument is of..I cant' remember what state it is in..and what the monument is...!)

thanks!

Answer 1

I am from Greensboro, NC. our city is, the site of the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park. there is a large statue of Revolutionary War General Nathaniel Greene for Whom our city is named. the battle of Guilford Courthouse was, fought there. General Greene and, His troops delayed the advance of Lord Cornwallis and, His BRITISH regulars.

Answer 2

Well, I live in a Southern state so there is a statue memorial to the Confederate dead, if it hasn't been removed by these politically times and demands. I hope not, but I am in a city, not a smaller town. All small towns have such statues.

There are statues for WWI and WWII. I love the WWII one. The plaque says it was paid for by Gold Star Mothers. There are also statues and memorials for policemen and firemen and many, many statues of famous people from our state's history, many of whom are buried in the State Cemetery in my city.

I haven't heard that any of them are haunted. Why would they be? They are just statues and had nothing to do with the lives they memorialize.

My favorite statue of all time is here, though. It is massive and is of Poseidon's horses in a fountain with water flowing over them and all around them and they are emerging from the pool they stand in. Do you know what Poseidon's horses look like? They are merhorses. They have the heads and forelegs of a horse, but from the middle down they are fish and have fish tails. They are beautiful.

Answer 3

I live near the city of Winchester in England where we have a 5 ton statue of King Alfred the Great (the one who burned the cakes) outside the Guildhall at the entrance to the main street of the city.

Winchester was once the capital of the kingdom of Wessex (and England at one point).

As regards haunted statues - I don't know of any, but there is a long tradition of weeping statues (see link).

Answer 4

Here in Racine, WI we have the first statue of Lincoln and his wife (see link for a photo of it) - not much, but occasionally pranksters will put hats or halloween costumes on them.

We also have the first statue of Martin Luther King, Jr in a speaking position. Though there was a controversey about the statue being too small (I agree - or at least, the pedastal was too large and gaudy - you'll see in the link)

Answer 5

In Los Angeles, at the corner of Main and Lincoln Park, there is a statue of Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec emperor.

Nearby is a LARGE statue of Emiliano Zapata on a horse.
(Zapata was a revolutionary hero)

Answer 6

The original Statue of Liberty which was used as a model for her big sister. No haunting though.

http://paris15info.blogspirit.com/images/medium_statue_liberte.jpg

A zouave soldier on a bridge pillar which was used for a century to measure if the river was reaching flood height (the knees of the zouave are wet!!!) No haunting either, sorry.

http://nagram.chez-alice.fr/photos/zouave.jpg

(For info, I live in Paris)

Answer 7

The alexander hamilton-aaron burr duel site is 5 monutes from my house in weehawken nj overlooking th hudson river, and oh yeah by that inference the actual statue of liberty is 15minutes away.

Answer 8

by the courthouse there's a statue of a civil war solider, union, and below it is something about gettisburg