Confederate Monument To Be Moved From Douglas County Courthouse

DOUGLASVILLE, GA — Douglas County’s commissioners voted 4-0 Tuesday to move the Confederate monument at the current courthouse to a museum in the old courthouse.

All Democrats on the Board of Commissioners voted to move it, according to The Douglas County Sentinel. The only Republican, Ann Jones Guider, couldn’t vote because of a family emergency.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy put up the monument in 1911 at the old courthouse. It was later moved to its current location in front of Douglas County’s modern courthouse.

The UDC, which still owns the monument, asked the county in July to move it to the History and Art Museum in the old courthouse for its own protection. Douglas County will pay to have it moved.

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