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Who owns this statue? (NC)
Posted On 23 Jul 2015
By : Todd Luck
... Deputy County Manager Damon Sanders-Pratt said as far as he can tell, the local United Daughters of the Confederacy James B. Gordon Chapter, who erected the statue more than a century ago, still owns it ...
On its front it reads “Our Confederate Dead” in large raised letters and engraved text around the base speaks of glory and fame for Southern soldiers who died in the Civil War ...
The local chapter had no comment, referring The Chronicle to the state president, who also had no comment and referred the paper to the group’s national president general, who didn’t respond to an email inquiry before press time ...
https://www.wschronicle.com/2015/07/owns-statue/
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