The George Davis Monument, Confederate memorial statue in Wilmington, North Carolina, US
The George Davis Monument is a bronze statue in Wilmington that was placed on a granite pedestal with multiple inscribed texts. It stood on a traffic island along Market Street for over a century before being taken down.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy's Cape Fear Chapter 3 conceived the monument in 1901, fundraising was completed in April 1909, and the cornerstone was laid on October 14, 1909. The bronze statue by Francis Herman Packer was cast in 1910 by the Gorham Manufacturing Company and dedicated on April 20, 1911. The city removed the statue on June 25, 2020, and the City Council voted on August 2, 2021, to remove the monument permanently.
The statue's inscriptions present George Davis as a scholar, patriot, and statesman, reflecting early 20th-century perspectives on Confederate commemoration.
The monument no longer stands: the City of Wilmington removed the statue on 25 June 2020 and voted on 2 August 2021 to take the monument off public property permanently. The statue and pedestal are in city storage until Cape Fear 3 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, recognized as owner, takes possession. The Market Street traffic island east of Third Street is now empty.
The cornerstone contained historical items such as George Davis's original commission document and newspapers from 1909. These objects offer insight into the era when the monument was built.
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