RICHMOND, Va. — The spot in Virginia where a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee once stood over Richmond’s tree-lined Monument Avenue is now just a pile of boulders, rubble and sand.
But for the next few weeks, workers will continue their search for a famed 1887 time capsule that was said to be buried under the massive monument, long viewed as a symbol of racial injustice.
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