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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Maryland’s last public Confederate monument removed

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A statue that was thought to be the last Confederate monument on a courthouse lawn in Maryland was removed Monday.

The “Talbot Boys Statue” was removed first and workers then loaded the stone base onto a flatbed truck by crane as small crowd watched. Some passing motorists who asked what was happening, cheerfully replied, “finally!” when they heard the news.

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