Confederate Monument, Lincolnton
The monument is a marble drinking fountain placed under a granite arch. The arch is composed of a two-tier granite top placed over four large square columns which rest atop a base of granite with a marble inlay.
Vintage postcard image of monument
Front: TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS / OF LINCOLN COUNTY
Rear: ERECTED BY WALLACE REINHARDT CHAPTER / CHILDREN OF THE CONFEDERACY
City of Lincolnton
May 11, 1911
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"A Great and Glorious Day," The Lincoln County News (Lincolnton, NC), May 12, 1911, 1
"Confederate Monument to be Unveiled," The Lincoln County News (Lincolnton, NC), May 9, 1911, 1 Link
"To the Confederate Soldiers of Lincoln County, (sculpture)," Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog #IAS NC000291, (accessed March 7, 2013) Link
MacKethan, Lulie Biggs. 1947. Chapter Histories : North Carolina Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy : 1897-1947, Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 77-78
Nixon, Alfred. "Address at the Dedication of the Confederate Memorial Hall, Lincolnton, North Crolina August 27th, 1908," (Lincolnton, NC: Southern Stars Chapter U.D.C., 1908), (accessed May 24, 2012) Link
North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. "Lincolnton," North Carolina Civil War Monuments, (accessed March 7, 2013) Link
Yes
Granite and marble
Wallace Reinhardt Chapter, Children of the Confederacy
$1,250
A newspaper account of the unveiling reported that more than 6,000 people were positioned throughout the town for the event. The day began with a memorial service in the courthouse beginning at 9:30 a.m. with a prayer led by the Rev. W. R. Minter, the memorial address given by the Hon. A. Nixon, and a benediction by the Rev. W. P. Dye. A procession to various cemeteries around the town followed, where veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy place evergreen wreaths and flowers upon the graves of veterans. At 11:00, a procession of Children of the Confederacy with carriages and floats went to the train station to meet Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and all proceeded to the monument for the unveiling. The monument was presented to Lincoln County by Major W. A. Graham, Commissioner of Agriculture of North Carolina. Judge Nixon accepted the monument, and addresses were given by Graham, Nixon, and Governor Kitchin.
The monument is located in front of the Lincoln County Courthouse at the intersection of Court Square Drive and West Main Street.
The monument sits just in front of the Courthouse, on a grassy area shaded by trees between the sidewalk and the city street.
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