NC Town Moving Confederate Monument for Second Time

Coalition opposed to Confederate monument to cease billboards, ads

EDENTON — The Move the Monument Coalition, a group that protested the town's Confederate monument for three years, says it is suspending newspaper ads and billboards around the Town of

NC town moving Confederate monument for second time

EDENTON, N.C. (WAVY) — The Confederate monument that has stood for more than 116 years in the waterfront town is on the move for the second time. Late Saturday night, contractors dismantled the monument from its more-than-60-year home at the end of South Broad Street and sent it to storage, ahead of planned reinstatement at the Veterans Memorial Park, according to Edenton Mayor W. Hackney High. The town had been planning for the relocation for m…

Confederate monument dismantled after sparking debate, will be moved to veterans park

The town of Edenton, North Carolina, dismantled a Confederate monument from its business district and placed it in storage. It will be relocated at Veterans Memorial Park.

North Carolina town moving Confederate monument

EDENTON, N.C. (WAVY) — The Confederate monument that has stood for more than 116 years in the waterfront town is on the move for the second time. Late Saturday night, contractors dismantled the monument from its more than 60-year home at the end of South Broad Street and sent it to storage, ahead of its planned reinstatement at the Veterans Memorial Park, according to Edenton Mayor W. Hackney High. The town had been planning for the relocation f…