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Small Confederate monument now displayed on private land

Small Confederate monument now displayed on private land | iNFOnews.ca
A Confederate marker in Franklin, Ohio, is back on display Thursday, June 28, 2018, this time on private property in the city. Earlier this month, the five-ton rock with a plaque honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Dixie Highway was installed at the Fraternal Order of Eagles lodge at 1075 N. Dixie Highway. Last August, controversy erupted after the city of Franklin moved the marker from its former location of 90 years at the corner of Hamilton-Middletown Road and South Dixie Highway. (Nick Graham/The Journal-News via AP)

FRANKLIN, Ohio – A small monument honouring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that sparked debate and had been removed from its original location is now displayed on private property in southwestern Ohio.

The Hamilton-Middletown Journal-News reports a Franklin Township trustee says the bronze plaque on a five-ton rock is now on property at a Fraternal Order of Eagles lodge.

Some Franklin Township residents became angry in 2017 after learning the 90-year-old marker originally along Dixie Highway was removed in August after deadly violence during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A city crew in neighbouring Franklin, which controlled the previous location, removed the marker. That city subsequently returned it to Franklin Township, about 40 miles (64 kilometres) north of Cincinnati.

The Eagles later agreed to put the marker on their property in Franklin.

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Information from: MIDDLETOWN: Hamilton-Middletown Journal News , http://www.journal-news.com

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