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Work crews spent Friday and Saturday, taking apart the Confederate memorial and putting it back together at Historyland Memorial Park.

Plans proceeding to relocate the memorial from the courthouse lawn to a private cemetery.

Once the removal schedule is firmed up, King George will announce to the public when the memorial is being moved to a private cemetery.

There have been many notable changes made in the Fredericksburg area in the year since George Floyd’s death sparked a protest movement across the nation.

One member of a new working group formed to look at diversity issues in King George is asking county officials once again to remove a Confederate monument from the courthouse lawn. Any such object “honoring the Confederacy endorses racism,” said Robert Ashton, one of three members of the new Diversity Advisory Committee and the vice president of the King George chapter of the NAACP. He wondered why surrounding counties have taken action to remove symbols of the Confederacy “yet King George is reluctant to do so.” “It appears to me that we have not grown as we say we h...