Bronze equestrian statue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee" class="extiw" title="en:Robert E. Lee">Robert E. Lee</a> and his horse <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveller_(horse)" class="extiw" title="en:Traveller (horse)">Traveller</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Street_Park" class="extiw" title="en:Market Street Park">Market Street Park</a> (formerly Emancipation Park) – known as Lee Park in 2008 – in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville,_Virginia" class="extiw" title="en:Charlottesville, Virginia">Charlottesville, Virginia</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_United_Methodist_Church" class="extiw" title="en:First United Methodist Church">First United Methodist Church</a> steeple in the background. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Edward_Lee_(sculpture)" class="extiw" title="en:Robert Edward Lee (sculpture)">Robert Edward Lee</a>, commissioned in 1917 and dedicated in 1924, is located in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_and_Albemarle_County_Courthouse_Historic_District" class="extiw" title="en:Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District">Charlottesville and Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District</a>. The park was listed on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" class="extiw" title="en:National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 1997.
Bill McChesney
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