North park, Mount Vernon Place

ID: 1792 ~ Source: ~ Creator: Detroit Publishing Company ~ Date: c. 1906

This file appears in: Roger Brooke Taney Monument: Absent Statue of the Author of the Dred Scott Decision

In an earlier configuration of Mount Vernon Place, the Taney Monument sat in the center of an oval of grass facing the Washington Monument.

This file appears in: Roger Brooke Taney Monument: Absent Statue of the Author of the Dred Scott Decision

Roger Brooke Taney Monument: Absent Statue of the Author of the Dred Scott Decision

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The Roger Brooke Taney Monument is not explicitly a Confederate monument. However, Taney is most famous for his decision in the Dred Scott case, which advanced slavery in America and is tied to the鈥�