Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe TRENTON, N.J., July 27 (UPI) -- An 8-foot-3 brownstone statue of George Washington that disappeared from New York without fanfare in 1870 has been hunted down in New Jersey. Two historians in New York and New Jersey spent years trying to find out what happened to the statue, which was created by Scottish immigrant James Thom. Advertisement They learned after the artist's death, another man purchased the statue and had it placed in Manhattan's City Hall Park, the White Plans (N.Y.) Journal News said. "Some people called it a monstrosity," said Nick Sunday, director of the Alexander Hamilton National Memorial in Paterson, N.J. "New York is very political, and for some reason many people did not warm up to the statue." On Dec. 26, 1870, the statue was quietly sold and moved to Trenton, N.J., where it was displayed in Washington Market. The artwork was sold several more times until 1995, when Janssen Pharmaceutica purchased it to display in its Titusville, N.J., headquarters where it remained at last report.
