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Today, the 澳彩开奖 has released an updated version of its聽Whose Heritage? report, which catalogued 1,728 monuments, place names, state holidays and other symbols of the Confederacy in public spaces across the South and the nation.

In the middle of the Arizona desert stands an almost orphaned monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Odd as it may seem, the Davis marker on U.S. Route 60 near Gold Canyon recognizes what is now State Route 80 as the Jefferson Davis Highway. The name is a relic from when the road was a U.S. highway and was dropped when it became a state road.

But the marker is still there, as are an untold number of other Confederate waymarkers on highways across the nation, both state-sanctioned and erected by private groups.

As the big statues and monuments come down around the country, the small private memorials to the Confederacy take on more prominence.

. The road signs dot intersections, highways and road sides from North Carolina to Arizona.

The markers aren鈥檛 bogus and commemorate real events and important places in U.S. history. But, many look like state-sanctioned historical markers. The story of what happened is told by the person or group putting the signs up 鈥� and groups tied to preserving the legacy of the Confederacy may not be seen as objective.

In North Carolina, the Sons of Confederate Veterans used the same foundry as the state for many years to produce markers on private property, giving those signs a very similar look to those paid for by the public.

That practice has since stopped, said Michele Walker, a spokeswoman for the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

鈥淭he department has no way of knowing how many of these privately placed markers are out there since they are not placed by us and we don鈥檛 have any way of keeping track of them,鈥� Walker told the 澳彩开奖.

The private markers blend in with other state-sanctioned roadside commemorations of historic events and places. Some of those even memorialize the Civil War and one, in the central Louisiana town of Colfax, marks the 鈥淐olfax Riot,鈥� an event that ended on April 13, 1873 with three white supremacists and 150 African Americans killed as the town sought to end Reconstruction after the Civil War.

The marker, put up by the state in 1950, remains standing outside the Grant Parish courthouse to this day and notes the end of 鈥渃arpetbag misrule in the South.鈥�

Bill Sherman, the communications director for the Louisiana Lieutenant Governor鈥檚 Office, said there are few records about the marker and the department hasn鈥檛 received any requests to remove it.

Efforts to remove the Jefferson Davis memorial in Arizona appear to be going nowhere.

Arizona鈥檚 Highway Commission gave the state鈥檚 portion of U.S. Route 80 the 鈥淛efferson Davis National Highway鈥� designation, but the federal government never recognized the new moniker.

When the road was renamed State Route 80 in 1989, the Jefferson Davis name was officially dropped.

"It was Kafka-esque," Josselyn Berry of ProgressNow Arizona,聽, . "Really frustrating."

State officials appear content to leave the marker alone.

鈥淎s indicated above, it鈥檚 ADOT鈥檚 position that since U.S. Route 80 was reclassified, the 1961 Arizona Highway Commission designation of the 鈥楯efferson Davis National Highway鈥� no longer exists,鈥� Department of Transportation Director John S. Halikowski said in a letter on October 13, 2017.

. That鈥檚 75 years 鈥� nearly 19 times longer than the Confederacy itself stood.

And, with the battle over Confederate monuments still raging across the country, these smaller markers may continue to be skirmishes in a Civil War that never seems to end.

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