Didn’t some millionaire try to take over the park a few years ago for a cancer memorial? I think the same dude took over a park in downtown Dallas. Richard Bloch of H&R Block? Quick Google suggests that it may have been 1999 when he and the city teamed up to try to do away with Forrest.
Interesting...
Monument inscription, unveiled 1905
“Those hoof beats die not upon fame’s crimson sod,
But will ring through her song and her story;
He fought like a Titan and struck like a god,
And his dust is our ashes of glory.”
(Written by Mrs. Virginia Frazer Boyle)
Nathan Bedford Forrest Historical Society website