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Ceremony marks progress in relocating monuments

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County officials and members of a committee appointed to relocate the Confederate monuments at the Bastrop County courthouse met for a ceremony on Saturday morning ahead of the monuments’ move to a planned heritage park. Last summer, the court approved the relocation of two Confederate monuments at the county courthouse and appointed a committee of community members to coordinate their relocation. The committee’s duties include finding a new location for the monuments and raising the funds to do so from private sources. The plan is to develop a public heritage park near Camp Swift on Cool Water Drive, which would preserve ...

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