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  • Civil War marker sparks new conflict...

    05/06/2002 9:35:21 PM PDT · by Vidalia · 3 replies · 185+ views
    BBC News ^ | Monday, 6 May, 2002, 14:36 GMT 15:36 UK | Janet Williams
    The small marker at the side of the road appeared so innocent that he had not noticed it before. But for some reason he cannot remember, Hans Dunshee took a closer look - and was outraged. So began a campaign which would inflame passions and loyalties dating back 140 years. The monument is a stone marker in Peace Arch Park, in Washington state on the US-Canadian border. It announces that the road leading south was named the Jefferson Davis Highway, commemorating the first and only President of the Confederacy, the short-lived government of the breakaway Southern states in the 1860s......