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The Robert E. Lee Elementary School in East Wenatchee, Washington, was so named because, as the district already had a Ulysses S. Grant Elementary School, the school board felt it was only fair to acknowledge those who had migrated from the South,…

In 1913, the Daughters of the Confederacy began a campaign to dedicate a route across the southern United States as the "Jefferson Davis Highway," a stretch later to include U.S. Route 99. In 1940, with unofficial state approval, the Daughters of…

Situated in the triangle formed by Merchant’s Row on north and south, and South Peasant Street on the east, stands this beautiful memorial of Vermont granite as a reminder that Middlebury remembers her defenders. The monument is 32 feet and 1 inch in…

The monument was built of rusticated granite blocks in the form of an obelisk. The square base and plinth are also granite. It was fashioned after the Washington monument and stands 75 feet tall. Aside from a small Masonic notation the only…

This sandstone obelisk, completed in 1837, was the first monument built for UNC president Joseph Caldwell. In 1904, when the current monument in McCorkle Place was erected, the Class of 1891 placed this monument on Wilson Caldwell's grave in the Old…

The city of Leesburg was established on June 16th, 1866 after gold was discovered at the Leesburg Mine. As most settlers were Southerners, the settlement was named after Confederate war hero general Robert E. Lee. Today, Leesburg remains an…

Bar Harbor's Civil War memorial is located in the old village burial grounds adjacent to the St. Saviour's Episcopal Church and the Bar Harbor Congregational Church on Mt. Desert Street. It is dedicated to the men of Eden (Bar Harbor's former name)…

The Soldiers' Monument located in monument Square, Dover-Foxcroft (originally two separate towns), is a twenty-five-foot-high granite monument, surmounted by a sculpture of a Union soldier at parade rest. It is dedicated to the men of Foxcroft who…

After the Vancouver Jefferson Davis highway marker was removed from public land in 2006, the Pacific Northwest Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans purchased a small plot of land in 2007 to be made into a public park that would permanently…