With location and design selected, SC’s Robert Smalls monument needs funding

By: Skylar Laird

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: April 24, 2026

Words: 736

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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COLUMBIA — The Statehouse’s planned monument to Civil War hero Robert Smalls has a location. It has a design.

What Smalls’ monument, the first on the grounds honoring an individual Black person, needs next is funding.

The monument, which legislators unanimously approved adding to the Statehouse grounds in 2024, will likely cost between $1 million and $2 million, Mike Shealy, who oversees special projects for the Department of Administration, told a commission …

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