Beheaded and Sent to Watery Graves, Columbus Statues Get New Life NYT | Top Stories By: Julia Jacobs 11 October 2025 at 17:02 More than 30 monuments to Christopher Columbus were toppled or taken down in 2020. Now some are being restored, and finding new, usually less-public homes. © Caroline Gutman for The New York TimesThe broken pieces of a Christopher Columbus statue that was torn down in Baltimore were used to guide the creation of a replica.