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Devon Henry, whose company, Team Henry Enterprises, took down the Monument Avenue statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, works with Grindly Johnson, Virginia’s secretary of administration, to place a new time capsule into the base around the pedestal.

Devon Henry, whose company, Team Henry Enterprises, took down the Monument Avenue statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, works with Grindly Johnson, Virginia’s secretary of administration, to place a new time capsule into the base around the pedestal.

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Time capsule with items from a new Virginia buried at former Lee site

The streets of Monument Avenue were filled with sounds of construction equipment last Thursday as more than a dozen workers searched from sunrise to sunset, and through sporadic rainfall, for a 134-year-old time capsule believed to be hidden in the base of the pedestal that until Sept. 8 held the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.