Supervisors vote to contribute $50,000 to second Civil War memorial in Leesburg (VA)
By Jim Barnes
September 7 at 3:46 PM
The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted last week to support a proposal to build a memorial on the county courthouse grounds in Leesburg to commemorate the slaves who were sold on the building’s steps and the soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War ...
A portion of the $50,000 might be used to place a historical marker recognizing the courthouse’s role in the Underground Railroad. York estimated that such a marker would cost $1,000 to $2,000.
Donna Bohanon, chairwoman of the Black History Committee of the Friends of Thomas Balch Library, told supervisors that such a memorial was “long overdue.”
“There are more stories to tell — and not just stories, but stories that are backed up by information and data that we have in our own Loudoun County archives,” Bohanon said. “These are our hidden treasures, and they have been kept in our courthouse archives for too long” ...
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