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| Location | Dearborn, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 42°18′29.4″N83°14′23.76″W / 42.308167°N 83.2399333°W /42.308167; -83.2399333 |
| Opening date | 1989 (1989) |
| Dedicated to | Orville L. Hubbard |
A statue ofOrville L. Hubbard was installed in 1989 inDearborn, Michigan, United States. The sculpture was removed in June 2020.[1]
A Michigan Historical marker near the statue refers to Hubbard as "an effective administrator" who "made Dearborn known for punctual trash collection", but omits any discussion of his segregationist policies.[2] Some groups had urged the city to remove the statue.[3][4] In his book,Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong,James W. Loewen listed the Hubbard statue as one of the Top 20 historical monuments ripe for "toppling", along with theobelisk celebrating theWhite League inNew Orleans and "The Good Darky" statue at the Rural Life Museum inBaton Rouge.[5]
The City removed the statue from its longtime location outside City Hall on September 29, 2015, and placed it at the Dearborn Historical Museum.[6][7] It was again moved, after complaints it was in too prominent of a location, to the side of the McFadden Ross House, further out of sight.[8] On June 5, 2020, the statue was removed from the outside of the museum and may have been moved toUnion City, Hubbard's hometown.[9] Dearborn City Council President Susan Dabaja posted on Facebook that the Hubbard family "will place it at his gravesite."[8]
