Lee Circle

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Lonely Planet review

Called Place du Tivoli until it was renamed to honor Confederate General Robert E Lee after the Civil War, Lee Circle has lost some of its earlier cachet. Just a few dozen paces away, an elevated freeway structure disturbs some of the traffic circle's symmetry, and gas stations occupy two of its corners. Nevertheless, the Robert E Lee monument at its center, dedicated in 1884, still refuses to turn its back on the North - for that's the direction the statue faces.