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struggle4progress

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Tue Oct 20, 2015, 03:29 AM Oct 2015

City selects language for Confederate fountain sign, rejects disclaimers (MT)

3 hours ago • AL KNAUBER Independent Record(0) Comments

A sign that will accompany the Confederate fountain in Hill Park will explain the history of the monument, but it will not contain a disclaimer distancing the city from the Confederacy ... The granite fountain was given to the city in 1916 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The language explains the fountain’s history as well as that of the United Daughters of the Confederacy ...

http://helenair.com/news/local/city-selects-language-for-confederate-fountain-sign-rejects-disclaimers/article_22ea2b04-fef6-5022-ba22-42865e7f6ac5.html

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