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In the largest city in central Georgia,, two statues of the South Army have been moved after years of stagnation of relocation plans due to proceedings.
The crew began moving the monument on Wednesday, and The Telegraph of Macon reports using $ 160,000 in personal funding raised by the Community Foundation. The
monument goes to a park outside the Rosehill Cemetery in Macon. There are 884 South Army soldiers buried there from two downtown street locations.
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Macon Bibb County Commission, July 2020 Approved to move the monument to after a few years of advocacy, but the proceedings slowed efforts.
The Macon-Bib County Commission in Georgia is two south A military monument from Macon to the South Army Cemetery.
One statue of Cotton Avenue, built elsewhere in the 1870s, represents an anonymous South Army soldier. Another monument to Poplar Avenue, built by the Allied Daughters Union, was dedicated to the "Women of the South."
Macon's Urban Development Department has stated that it will redevelop the location of Cotton Avenue to create more green space for the ever-growing number of downtown residents.
The statue on Cotton Avenue was a particular target of protest. It was polluted by destroyers in the summer of 2020 during the Black Lives Matter protests after the murders of Armor Arbury, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.
The Macon Bibb County Commission voted 5-4 to move the monument, butsaid the South Army monument "can only be relocated to an equivalent prominent place."Residents have filed a lawsuit, citing Georgian law. The judge finally dismissed the proceedings at the request of the city and county.
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"We don't want it in the dungeon. We want it to be thrown into the Okmulgee River. In a protest in 2020, former Macon mayor C. Jack Ellis said, "I'm not asking for blasphemy." This is also dead. This era is dead, dead, and gone. Place it in the graveyard to which it belongs.
A monument to the South Army from the center of Macon, Georgia moved. The monument will be relocated to Whittle Park in front of the Rosehill Cemetery.
The Allied Veterans' Son and Allied Daughters Union compromised with the city county over a location near the cemetery.
Statue of the South Army after removal
