Georgia’s largest city will have its Confederate statue relocated

• Crews started moving the monuments on Wednesday.
• They however moved to a park outside Macon’s Rose Hill Cemetery.
• However, a homeowner filed a lawsuit citing a Georgia law can only moved to locations of similar importance.

The largest city in middle Georgia is moving two Confederate statues after lawsuits prevented their relocation for years. According to The Telegraph of Macon, crews started moving the monuments on Wednesday. The monuments however transported from two downtown streets to a park outside Macon’s Rose Hill Cemetery. The Macon-Bibb County Commission approved the relocation of the monuments in July 2020. In the 1870s, a statue on Cotton Avenue now stands in a different place which built to honor an unnamed Confederate soldier.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected another monument on Poplar Avenue in honor of “women of the South.”

A homeowner filed a lawsuit citing a Georgia law that states Confederate statue can only moved to locations of similar importance.

We however not requesting that it be vandalized “During demonstrations in 2020, C. Jack Ellis, a former mayor of Macon, said.

The city-county came to an agreement with the Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of the Confederacy over the location close to the cemetery.