The search for an 1887 time capsule inside the pedestal where a towering Robert E. Lee statue once stood in Virginia has yielded yet another box believed to be the coveted artifact.
Crews continued their search on Monday as they worked to clean up the remaining pieces of the statue's pedestal. That's when they found a box in the northeast corner of the pedestal site."They found it!," the governor exclaimed on Twitter."This is likely the time capsule everyone was looking for.
But what they found instead was an edition of"The Huguenot Lovers: A Tale of the Old Dominion," a cloth envelope, a silver coin, and a rust-colored 1875 almanac, the Associated Press reported. The news outlet reported the location in which the first box was found and the lack of expected items inside led experts to believe it was not the time capsule they hoped it would be.
Historian Dale Brumfield believed the box found on Dec. 17 was less of a time capsule and more of a personal commemorative collection for the men behind the statue's construction. A newspaper from 1887 suggested that the actual capsule would contain dozens of objects, civil war memorabilia, and a picture of Lincoln lying in a coffin that Brumfield said could be worth upwards of $300,000.
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