Billboard 1 (copy)

Emancipate NC and Move the Monument Coalition Edenton-Chowan recently paid for this billboard on U.S. 17 in Bertie County to express their opposition to a Confederate monument’s continued location near the Edenton waterfront.

 Tyler Newman/Chowan Herald

EDENTON — Town Attorney Hood Ellis reviewed with Edenton Town Council last week the status of litigation against the town over its efforts to move Edenton’s Confederate monument to a site on Queen Street near Filbert Creek.

That removal was stopped by a restraining order granted by N.C. Superior Court Judge Jerry Tillett in March 2023. Tillett indicated that he was waiting for the outcome of a challenge to a state law requiring that “objects of remembrance” may not be removed unless they are moved to a place of similar prominence.