There are at least several reasons why it can be said that Ballou and his horse were buried beneath his statue is total nonsense, but I’ll just go with this. Ballou died in 1890. The statue was erected in 1900. The dedication was well covered in newspapers. Why no mention of the burial beneath the statue in those articles? Because it didn’t happen.
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