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County has a mixed record of honoring Confederacy

Memorial to Robert E. Lee was moved to the backyard of the Historic Courthouse in 2008.

By Bill Moss, Published: August 18, 2017

Unlike many county seats in the South, Hendersonville does not have a Confederate monument that dominates its courthouse square. Few Southern towns have banished their Robert E. Lee memorial to a backyard corner of the public space, as Henderson County did seven years ago. And there can’t be many that display a monument to Union soldiers alongside one honoring the boys in gray.

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