Archive for “Sons of Confederate Veterans”
Sons of Confederate Veterans provide new fence for Soldiers’ Monument
The Sons of Confederate Veterans yesterday installed an iron fence at Oakwood Cemetery: A $35,000 iron fence was installed yesterday around the Soldiers’ Monument by Colonial Iron Works of Petersburg, with meticulous oversight by F. Lee Hart III of Suffolk, chairman of the SCV Oakwood Restoration Committee. The fence reproduces a feature that disappeared about [...]
Sons of Confederate Veterans still pushing to help maintain Oakwood Cemetery
The RTD is reporting that the Sons of Confederate Veterans continue to offer to maintain part of Oakwood Cemetery, and would like to install better headstones: The Sons of Confederate Veterans is proposing an agreement that would allow its members to maintain the graves in the Confederate section and gradually to install upright headstones. The [...]
SCV still interested in Oakwood
wtvr has 3-minute story on the ongoing bid by the Sons of Confederate Veterans to take over maintenance at Oakwood Cemetery. The story is a good look at both the finiancial savings for the city and the issues of how this might play out in “a predominantly African-American community”.
still no to SCV
The city continues to rebuff the Sons of Confederate Veterans June offer to take over maintenance, at their own expense, of Oakwood Cemetery.
Sons of Confederate Veterans makes offer for Oakwood
The Sons of Confederate Veterans has offered to take over maintenance, at their own expense, of the recently vandalized Oakwood Cemetery while allowing the city to keep the title. [via]
