The threat comes on the same day that multiple other states received a threatening email claiming explosives were placed at state capitol buildings.
The project, still in the early planning stages, could be unveiled on the front lawn on or near where another statue once honored the author of a Supreme Court decision that declared slaves were property and not human beings.
The area around State Circle is a beehive of construction and renovation activity. The oldest state capitol building in the nation in continuous use…
Renovation of the old Treasury Building, closed to the public for 50 years, is part of a $22.2 million State House project.