This story contains reporting from the Daily Advance.

The Confederate monument in downtown Edenton was removed late Saturday evening, Aug. 30, after standing for decades at the foot of South Broad Street, according to reporting by the Daily Advance .

The two-hour operation began at 11:01 p.m. and concluded by 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 31. Observers said the memorial was transported to the old Chowan County Jail and placed inside a walled enclosure. Plans call for the monument to eventually be relocated to Veterans Memorial Park on Court Street, but no site preparation has begun there.

The move followed an Aug. 18 ruling by Superior Court Judge Wayland J. Sermons, who vacated an injunction that had allowed the Sons of Confederate Veterans to keep the monument in place since 1961. The mo

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