Wake County, NC - North Carolina's Confederate Monument

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Newspaper: The Sun
December 12, 1892

North Carolina's Confederate Monument - it has been decided that the 
monument to the North Carolina Confederate dead shall be of granite.

The city of Raleigh will provide the place for it, in what may be
termed the most public square in the city - the one in front of the
new passenger station, the monument to stand in the entire of the
square.

Capt. Octavius Coke has granite quarries near here and generously
offers the association all the stone desired, free of cost. The only
cost will be the cutting of the stone, its transportation and
placing into position.

It is considered best to use stone from one quarry, in this way, so
that all may harmonize in color and texture. The counties, therefore, 
will be asked to make money contributions.

It is proposed that there shall be, upon a broad base, a shaft
composed of 96 blocks of granite, one for each county, and surrounding
all a bronze statue of Henry Wyatt, the first Confederate killed in
the State services.

Standing in the centre of Nash Square, which is State property, the
position of the monument would be far more commanding than if it were
placed in the Capitol Square. 

The latter square is far too small, and the fine effect of space and
elevation would be lacking. Raleigh Chronicle.

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