Posted on 05/24/2017 7:59:47 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Nash Farm Battlefield and Museum announced on Tuesday plans to close the museum, apparently after Henry County District 2 Commissioner Dee Clemmons requested they remove their Confederate flags from display at the property.
The museum property, owned by Henry County, housed a large artifact collection, period clothing exhibits, and history of the Nash Farm and family from the Civil War era battles that were fought on the site.
“These stories were told mainly through primary sources, sometimes secondary, but never tertiary sources. To exclude any Confederate flag would mean the historical value has been taken from our exhibits, and a fair interpretation could not be presented to each guest,” the Friends of Nash Farm Battlefield Inc. on the Nash Farm Battlefield Facebook page. “Confederate flags were on this hallowed ground, as were the Union flags. To remove either of them would be a dishonor.”
Bill Dodd is the museum’s curator and member of the Friends of Nash Farm group. He told the Herald Wednesday that the owner of the majority of the museum’s collection felt as though he was no longer welcome at the museum and did not have the support of Clemmons.
Dodd explained that over the last few months Clemmons has requested changes including the removal of an entrenchment replica used for living history tours and re-enactments.
“We did that,” Dodd said.
Weeks later, Dodd said a Henry County employee showed up on behalf of Clemmons and removed the Confederate battlefield flag from the flag pole. The employee took it into the museum and told volunteers they could display it only inside the museum.
“Two weeks ago Saturday, (Clemmons) came into the museum and stated that all Confederate flags needed to be removed,” Dodd said.
Dodd said the closing of the museum is a loss to the community.
“Over the years we’ve had more than 10,000 school children visit the battlefield for our living history program and visitors from 15 foreign countries and every state in the union,” Dodd said.
At this point, Dodd said he’s “done.”
“I’m tired of doing battle with our commissioners,” he said. “It’s not (Clemmons’s) decision alone, but if I don’t have the district commissioner’s support, how can I expect to have the support from any other BOC members.”
The only items remaining in the building are display pieces relocated to Nash Farm from Heritage Park and approximately 3,000 artifacts that belong to Henry County. The pieces were discovered during archaeological digs on the battlefield site.
Clemmons could not be reached for comment Wednesday, but appears to stand behind her decision.
“I will not apologize for asking that the CONFEDERATE FLAG be removed FROM A COUNTY OWNED PARK and given back to the private owner as it was not a flag owned by Henry County,” stated Clemmons on her Facebook page. “This has caused me to receive hundreds of nasty emails and Facebook posts. Over the years, the Confederate battle flag has come to mean different things to different people. To me and many other United States Citizens it is emblematic of slavery, racism and the bloody battles that made the Civil War the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. WE CAN NOT ERASE HISTORY BUT WE DON’T HAVE TO RE-Live it.”
In a March 16 email from Clemmnons to her fellow commissioners, provided to the Herald Wednesday afternoon by the county, Clemmons said she had received “overwhelming” requests from her constituents that the flag be removed.
“I was surpised that we have this flag in our county inventory flying high for almost eight years,” Clemmons wrote. “When I investigated further … I was relieved that the flag did not belong to Henry County and that the owner would graciously place it in their personal dwelling. If any of you would like the flag placed back up speak now. If you get concerns from citizens, refer them to me.”
Clemmons also wrote that her thorough research had revealed that “this flag has no historical relevance to the undocumented battlefield” and that she felt its removal would prevent the county from exposure to lawsuits for hate crimes or discrimination.
The museum, located at 100 Babbs Mill Road in Hampton, plans to officially close June 1, according the Nash Farm Facebook post.
Visit henryherald.com for updates.
No need to look. Another black snowflake.
Try that feces here in WV. Then gtfo befoe you are on a rail with tar...
No different than the Taliban.
This is what Marxism looks like.
http://www.henrycountybattlefield.com/history/
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Two major actions associated with the Atlanta Campaign took place
on and around the approximately 200-acre track of land now owned
by Henry County and formerly part of the old Nash Farm:
Minty’s cavalry saber charge during Kilpatrick’s Raid,
one of the most dramatic moments of the campaign and often cited
as one of the largest cavalry saber charges of the war and certainly
of the Atlanta Campaign, and one of the few that was somewhat successful;
and the infantry Battle of Lovejoy, a rather hotly fought contest
involving the bulk of the two armies across well-fortified lines,
which is overshadowed in the historical literature by the previous
day’s action at Jonesboro. Both of these engagements were
significant events in the last weeks of General William T. Sherman’s
Atlanta Campaign, and the Battle of Lovejoy represented the last battle
of that campaign, ending over four months of nearly continuous marching and fighting.
Nazis were big at removing symbols too as I recall.
Wish the rest of the country was like WV ...
Maybe the south should rise again and get rid of these ridiculous people in public office. They get what they vote for.
Why remove the flag?
There was only a request and no legislative decision to remove the flag or close.
Erasing history
.....but not from our hearts
There is a nationwide Marxist assault on our history, traditions and national culture. They want to erase ideas of American exceptionalism by erasing history, just like Soviets in USSR. Removal of statues won’t stop in New Orleans. There is a militant group that wants to remove statues of Sam Houston in Texas. They are planning a demonstration in Houston on June 10th at Hermann Park where a statue of Sam Houston is located.
This is infuriating.
Just keep giving in to the fascist left. Pretty soon you won’t have squat.
“There is a militant group that wants to remove statues of Sam Houston in Texas. They are planning a demonstration in Houston on June 10th at Hermann Park where a statue of Sam Houston is located.”
That is a hoax.
That group is promoting their upcoming demonstration on Facebook. I hope you are right, but how do you know?
“Nash Farm Battlefield museum to close after commissioner requests removal of Confederate flags”
There are “protected classes” of people in this country and they have come to understand that this country is “all about me.”
The health care system - all about me.
The rest of the entire economy - all about me.
Social institutions like marriage - all about me.
Military services - all about me.
Immediate gratification - all about me.
And the War Between the States - it was all about me. Six hundred thousand died because they foresaw I would come along 150 years later. The reason they fought and died - it was all about me and for no other reason.
Remove this; remove that; rewrite history. It is all about me.
I looked at that FB page and it seems to be a hoax.
on the 75th anniversary of gettysburg union and confederate vets meet on the battlefield in a great celebration of reconciliation
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