During the process of writing Episode 7 of The Alley Cast, I got really interested in this monument to Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. If you haven’t listened to the episode yet, leaders of the AME denomination petitioned the organizers of the Centennial celebration (1876) to have a display at the fair—the only exhibit by Black Americans in the whole thing. They commissioned a monument of Richard Allen and the various marble sections were en route by train when they were lost as the train car they were in plunged off a bridge into a river. Only the bust of Allen, which was in a separate train car, survived, and made it onto display at the Centennial.