- Crews working to remove the pedestal where a Confederate General Robert E. Lee statue believe they’ve found a time capsule that was buried there in 1887
- The massive bronze equestrian statue of Lee, erected in 1890, was taken down in September
- The news comes more than a year after Governor Ralph Northam ordered its removal following protests over racism, police brutality erupted across the US
- The day after the statue was removed, crews spent over 12 hours searching for the time capsule in the 40-foot tall pedestal, but were unable to locate it
- However on Friday, Northam announced that crews found the top of a square box embedded in a 2,000-pound granite block