Confederate monument dismantled in Edenton, in North Carolina, to relocate

A Confederate monument which caused an agitation in a city in North Carolina was dismantled and put into stock until it could be moved to a different place.

The city of Edenton plans to withdraw the monument from a popular place in the business district for three years. He dismantled the monument on Saturday.

It was only after the dismissal of a trial contesting the decision that the city decided to act.

The meeting of the Florida municipal council broke out on the plan to replace the Memorial of Veterans of the Second World War by the government project

Mayor W. Hackney High Jr. told a local Wavy store that the monument would be restored to the commemorative park of the city veterans.

Edenton created a human relations committee in 2020 to study the question of the monument and propose recommendations.

The city of Edenton, in North Carolina, has dismantled a Confederate monument in its business district and put it into stock. The monument will be moved to the Veterans Memorial Park. (John Shannon v. City of Edenton)

In a community letter published on Facebook, the mayor declared that the debate on the monument “was deeply emotional and stimulating for the municipal council and many of our citizens”.

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The advice finally recommended to relocate the 26 -foot statue.

High asked the community to find “common ground” and called those who said that civil servants “erased history”.

The municipal council recommended the relocation of the statue after a committee examined the case. (John Shannon v. City of Edenton)

“This is an ill-informed point of view,” he wrote. “The monument is not removed – it is being moved. In doing so, we do not raise the story.”

The memorial, erected in 1909, was originally stood before the former colonial courthouse, according to several sources. It was built to honor the Confederate Dead of the County of Chowan.

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In the early 1960s, it was moved to the first point of the city center.

In the related news, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced in August that the monument of reconciliation, a Confederate Memorial, would return to the national cemetery of Arlington just outside Washington, DC

“The monument is not deleted – it is being moved. In doing so, we do not break history,” said the mayor of Edenton. (istock)

“I am proud to announce that the beautiful and historical sculpture of Moses Ezekiel – often called” The monument of reconciliation ” – will be rightly returned to the National Cemetery of Arlington near its burial site”, wrote Hegseth on X.

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The installations honoring the Confederate Figures were transferred to a storage installation of the Ministry of Defense in Virginia in 2023 after a push of the Pentagon.

Fox News Digital contacted the mayor and the city of Edenton to comment.