EDENTON, N.C. — The Confederate monument that has stood for decades at the foot of South Broad Street in Edenton is no longer there.

Crews removed the statue Saturday night, just days after a Superior Court judge dissolved a restraining order that had blocked the monument’s relocation since March 2023. The monument, dedicated to "Our Confederate Dead," had been the center of ongoing litigation and weekly protests for years.

Judge paves way for relocation of contentious Confederate statue in North Carolina

13News Now confirmed Sunday that the statue is no longer at its previous location. Town officials said it has been taken down and placed in storage, where it will remain until it is reinstalled at Veterans Memorial Park behind the Chowan County Courthouse, as outlined in a Memorandum o

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