ALLISON WRABEL The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress The statue of George Rogers Clark is removed from its base on Sunday, July 11, 2021, at the University of Virginia. ALLISON WRABEL | (434) 978-7261 The removal of the George Rogers Clark statue at the University of Virginia on Sunday was for some a symbolic first step toward repairing the harm the monument represented over the course of its 100-year history. Workers strapped and adjusted the statue for about two hours before it was removed from its base, loaded onto a flatbed truck and taken to an undisclosed location. Erected in 1921, the statue depicts Clark on a horse, attacking a Native American family while backed by three frontiersmen wielding rifle, pistol and powder. It was paid for by Paul Goodloe McIntire, who also commissioned the three statues that were removed by the city of Charlottesville on Saturday â those of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas âStonewallâ Jackson and one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Sacagawea.