Stonewall Jackson Statue

The "Stonewall" Jackson Statue was sculpted by Charles Keck and is the focal point of Jackson Park. The monument was given to the City by Paul Goodloe McIntire as a gift in 1921. It is ranked as one of the three best equestrian statues in the world.

On October 19, 1921, Charles Keck’s equestrian statue of Gen. Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson was unveiled in front of a crowd of more than 5,000 people. An interesting figure at the Reunion was Rev. William Mack Lee, General Robert E. Lee's cook and body servant of the Civil War.

Base

"The bottom base is of Milford (Mass.) pink granite and the upper section of old rose Westerly granite from Rhode Island. The monument is simply inscribed, bearing few but significant decorations-a pair of pendant swords, a wreath of immortelles and figures of Valor and Faith.” On two faces of the pedestal the name, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, and the years of birth and death are inscribed (1824-1863.) At the top of the pedestal, which is 19 feet long, 12 feet long and 13 high, are inscribed the names of the some of the battles in which Jackson won is fame – Manassas and Chancellorsville – and the Valley campaign.

Milford pink granite

From 1870 to 1940, the town of Milford became famous for the "pink" variety of this stone, prized as a building material. According to local legend, the granite was "discovered" in the early 1870s. At its peak, over 1,000 men labored in dozens of quarries in Milford and nearby Hopkinton. A sample of Milford Pink is on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

Examples of use

• Massachusetts

Flour and Grain Exchange Building, Boston (1892)

Boston Public Library under construction, 1889

Boston Public Library, McKim Building, Boston (1895)

Flour and Grain Exchange Building, Boston (1892)

Memorial Hall, Milford (1884)

Town Hall, Hopedale (1886)

Worcester City Hall, Worcester (1898)

• New York City

American Museum of Natural History (1869)

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (1895)[8]

General Post Office Building (1912)

Pennsylvania Station (1910)

University Club of New York (1899)

Washington, D.C.

Eccles Building (1937)[10]

First Division Monument (1924)[10]

ero Milestone (1923)[11]

• Other

Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1888)

Pennsylvania Station, Baltimore, Maryland (1911)

Singapore Changi Airport, Changi, Singapore (2002)

City's removal cost

According to a (2016) report prepared by city staff, removing the statues of Gens. Robert E. Lee Statue and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson is estimated to cost $330,000 and $370,000, respectively.

Estimated value

Gifts to the City		Original Value	Value in 2019 dollars	City Assessment (2019)
Jackson Park: Given to the City for a public park (1919)	Park	$10,900.00	$172,631.10	$1,282,900.00
Stonewall Jackson Statue (1921)	Monument	$20,000.00	$293,224.00

Source: James Collier Marshall to Albemarle Historical Society, April 30, 1958. Other gifts are mentioned in House Joint Resolution No. 158 Commemorating the life of Paul G. McIntire on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth.

Context: Virginia has the second-most Confederate memorials of any state, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. (It has 110 to Georgia’s 114). Many of the statues were erected in the late 1800s and early 1900s during a time of heightened public interest in Civil War commemoration.

Stonewall Jackson Statue