This is the legendary Iron Dog at Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery. The dog stands in eternal vigilance over a little girl who died in 1856. The legend has it that the dog was a fixture in front of a Richmond drug store and the little girl loved to go there and see the dog climb on it... she just loved it to pieces... you know little girls can be. Sadly, she passed at a very young age. A few years later, with the Civil War looming, her daddy was afraid the dog would be taken away and melted down for the metal, and he couldn't bear to see the thing his daughter loved so much just go away, so he bought it from the drug store and moved it to the cemetery. Now the iron dog she so enjoyed in life guards her eternal resting place.
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