Crews may have found 1887 time capsule in Lee statue base
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Crews working to remove the pedestal where a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee towered over Richmond for more than a century believe they've found a time capsule that was buried there in 1887.
On Friday, Northam announced that crews found the top of a square box embedded in a 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) granite block. It was located about 20 feet (6 meters) off the ground in the main section of the pedestal, not in its base. Workers who searched for it in September believed it was tucked inside or under a cornerstone of the pedestal.
"It looks like it is (the time capsule)," said Clark Mercer, Northam's chief of staff. "We're hoping it hasn't been damaged by water over the last 100-plus years."
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