Virginia – Page 2 – The Monumentous

How to Make Money and Create Community with Monuments - Volume 1

The Roanoke Star Comes to Define the “Star City of the South”

A Powerful Means of Identity for the Blue Ridge Region

The Monumentous

Attraction, Monumentous Icons, North America, United States

Visible from over 60 miles away, the Roanoke Star sits atop of Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia. This visibility during the day or not is part of the reason that the world’s largest freestanding illuminated man-made star has become a means of identity for residents that attract visitors from all over It showcases what it […]

Monument Avenue Represents the Legacy of Richmond

Monument Avenue represents what it can mean to create monuments that resonate with a community and culture in such deep ways

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Monumentous Legacy, North America, Sculpture, United States

Monuments are sometimes built to commemorate a person or event, and the monuments on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, were constructed to do both. Statues dedicated to Confederacy leaders such as Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson began to appear as early as 1890 and represented people and concepts that residents wanted to […]