United Confederate Veterans Memorial, Confederate monument at Lake View Cemetery in Seattle, United States.
The United Confederate Veterans Memorial was a granite structure at Lake View Cemetery with bronze elements that referenced symbols from Confederate military history. The monument stood there until activists removed it in 2020 during social justice demonstrations.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the memorial in 1926, using granite specifically sourced from Stone Mountain, Georgia. The stone traveled via the Panama Canal, emphasizing the southern origins of this commemorative structure.
The memorial stood near 14 Confederate graves, though no bodies lay beneath it; the Make It Right Project cited this in 2018 when listing it among ten monuments it wanted removed, and that October it put up a Seattle billboard reading "Hey Seattle, there's a Confederate Memorial in your backyard". In 2018 former UDC chapter president Heidi Christensen asked the City Council to remove it.
The site is accessible to visitors during cemetery hours, but visitors should behave respectfully as at any burial ground. Note that the memorial structure itself is no longer present at the location, and only the history of the site remains visible.
The 10-ton block was shipped from Stone Mountain, Georgia, to Seattle through the Panama Canal in 1926. The Make It Right Project noted in 2018 that the memorial stands near 14 Confederate graves but has no bodies beneath it, making it a piece of Lost Cause propaganda rather than a grave marker.
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