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The Pine Bluff Confederate Monument has long been located in front of the Jefferson County courthouse, at Barraque and Main Streets in
Pine Bluff, Arkansas Pine Bluff, officially the City of Pine Bluff, is the List of municipalities in Arkansas, tenth-most populous city in the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Jefferson County, Arkansas, Jefferson County. The population of the city wa ...
. It depicts a standing
Confederate Army The Confederate States Army (CSA), also called the Confederate army or the Southern army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fi ...
soldier, holding a rifle whose butt rests on the ground. The statue, built out of Georgia
marble Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2) that have recrystallized under the influence of heat and pressure. It has a crystalline texture, and is ty ...
by the McNeel Marble Company, stands on a stone base in height and at the base. It was placed in 1910 by the local chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacy The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) is an American neo-Confederate hereditary association for female descendants of Confederate Civil War soldiers engaging in the commemoration of these ancestors, the funding of monuments to them, a ...
. The monument was listed on the
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in 1996. On June 20, 2020, the monument was removed from the Jefferson County courthouse as part of a cooperative agreement between County Judge Gerald Robinson and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.Pine Bluff Confederate statue comes down in agreement
''Arkansas Democrat Gazette''. Retrieved 20 June 2020 The statue was then moved to an undisclosed location for storage where it can be cleaned and repaired.


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List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests During the civil unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, a number of monuments and memorials associated with racial injustice were vandalized, destroyed or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced. This oc ...
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1910 sculptures Monuments and memorials in the United States removed during the George Floyd protests Buildings and structures in Pine Bluff, Arkansas Former National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Arkansas Neoclassical architecture in Arkansas Tourist attractions in Jefferson County, Arkansas United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials in Arkansas 1910 establishments in Arkansas Statues removed in 2020 {{JeffersonCountyAR-NRHP-stub