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…
This statue of Davis was torn down on June 10, 2020 during the protests over the murder of George Floyd. The statue of Vindicatrix (the personification of Southern womanhood) was removed on July 8, 2020. The rest of the monument is pending removal.
This memorial is one of a series of large granite mountain boulders that form the "Open-Air Westminster Abbey of the South." Each boulder is adorned with a marker imparting information about figures of cultural importance to the South, including…