Confederate Rock finds new home at Centralia battlefield site (MO)
By RUDI KELLER
Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 2:00 pm
... The 5½-ton boulder was removed early Saturday from the lawn of the Boone County Courthouse. The rock, a memorial to Boone Countians who fought for the South in the Civil War, was moved to the courthouse in 1975 after black students at the University of Missouri objected to its presence near Ellis Library ...
The John Sappington Marmaduke chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy donated the rock to the city in 1935. A large ceremony marked the occasion, but no ceremonies accompanied its move in 1975 or on Saturday ...
When Chance volunteered the battlefield as a home, it made sense both politically and historically, Northern District Commissioner Janet Thompson said.
“It fits within what they are doing at the battlefield, and it was a disconnect at the courthouse,” she said ...
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