Statue will be removed from the exterior of the State Capitol
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The Pride flag was raised atop the State Capitol on Tuesday afternoon.Ken Dixon / Hearst Connecticut Media Group
HARTFORD A longtime State Capitol figure will be unceremoniously removed and exiled to the Old State House under a tiny item deep inside the state budget.
The statue of John Mason, who led the infamous attack by English settlers and the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes against the Eastern Pequot tribe in May of 1637, killing nearly 500 Native Americans and enslaving others, will be taken from the north facade of the Capitol.