Cemetery and city finalize deal to move statues (KY)
BY BETH MUSGRAVE
NOVEMBER 16, 2017 08:53 PM
The Lexington Cemetery and the city have finalized an agreement that will allow two Confederate statues to be permanently moved to the Leestown Road cemetery.
The city and the cemetery have been in negotiations for several weeks over issues associated with moving the statues, including the size of the base of the statues, security and upkeep of the statues. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council voted unanimously Thursday to approve the 12-page agreement.
The cemetery board tentatively agreed to take the statues of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and John C. Breckinridge, the last Confederate secretary of war, in September after the council voted unanimously to remove the statues from the lawn of the former Fayette County Courthouse on Main Street. They had stood there for more than 130 years ...
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