BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Crews in Bentonville worked Wednesday to remove a Confederate monument that had been on display in the city’s downtown square for more than a century.
The Arkansas division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy announced in June it would move the monument to a private park. County Judge Barry Moehring told the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette the monument’s removal would likely take all day because it has to be removed in sections.
The monument depicts a Confederate soldier and has been on display on Bentonville’s downtown square since 1908.
The statue will be refurbished and kept in a secure location until it is moved to the private park, a spokesman for the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Arkansas said.
The relocation of this statue comes at a time when efforts to remove images and symbols of the Confederacy are taking place across the country. Shame of Bentonville, a local group, protested for the monument’s removal.
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