Charleston County Judicial Center on Broad Street is the home to an 18th-century marble statue of William Pitt (1708-1778), first Earl of Chatham, that is believed to be “the nation’s first public statuary, one of the grandest tributes that survives from this nation’s colonial era,” according to columnist Robert Behre. The statue, which has moved at least four times through the years, was one of two commissioned to honor Pitt, considered America’s leading parliamentary advocate before the Revolutionary War. Charleston’s Pitt statue was delivered before a companion piece made it to New York. Interestingly, a British cannonball knocked off the statue’s arm in Charleston. Later, the statue’s head was separated from the torso, only to be reattached.