The bronze statue of the teenage civil rights heroine will replace a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the state ...

Houdon’s masterpiece, which has stood in the rotunda of the Virginia State Capitol ... shows the Washington Equestrian Statue in a traffic circle on the western side of the Capitol.

For years, social media users have claimed the U.S. Capitol contains a tomb that was originally built for George ... Virginia. However, Congress succeeded in securing the permission of Washington ...

according to Virginia Capitol Police. This crypt was originally intended to be George Washington’s final resting place before his brother insisted he be buried at Mount Vernon. Police said the ...