Sept. 1 (UPI) -- A Confederate monument was quietly taken out in a small downtown North Carolina community in order to make room for a new multi-milion dollar waterfront business project.
It took around two hours Saturday night for public workers in Edenton to remove a statue that stood for decades next to South Broad Street on the water's edge. The process ended around 1:30 a.m. along Albemarle Sound in North Carolina's Inner Banks region.
"To those who claim we are 'erasing history': that is a misinformed view," Edenton Mayor W. Hackney High said Aug. 19 in a statement posted to the town website.
Workers transported the statue to the old Chowan County Jail and temporarily put in a walled enclosure.
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