Athens Confederate Monument

Athens Confederate Monument
The monument in 2007
Year1872 (1872)
Medium
LocationAthens, Georgia, U.S.
Coordinates33°54′58″N 83°23′53″W / 33.916°N 83.398°W / 33.916; -83.398

The Athens Confederate Monument is a Confederate memorial near Barber Creek in Athens, Georgia, United States. It is a Carrara marble obelisk mounted on a granite foundation engraved with names of the city's soldiers who were killed during the American Civil War. It was formerly located in the median strip of Broad Street in the Downtown Local Historic District of Athens[1] until being removed in 2020 and being placed at its current site in 2021.

  1. ^ "Map of the Downtown Local Historic District". Athens-Clarke County Unified Government. 2017. Archived from the original on June 10, 2020. Retrieved June 11, 2020.