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Commission votes to move Confederate Rock (MO)
Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 4:33 pm
The Boone County Commission approved a plan Thursday to move the 11,000-pound Confederate Rock memorial off the courthouse lawn. The rock, meant to honor Boone County's Confederate soldiers from the Civil War, has sat in front of the courthouse since 1975, when controversy forced it from the University of Missouri campus. It was first dedicated in 1935. The county reached an agreement with the Friends of Central Battlefield organization to move the monument to the site of the September 1864 Battle of Centralia. Thursday's vote was unanimous ...
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/politics/commission-votes-to-move-confederate-rock/article_e5006888-978c-5347-bfb6-2929621585a1.html
