Walton County commissioners were silent Tuesday, January 12, 2021 on a request from a local businessman to have a Confederate-era flag and monument to the county’s Civil War dead removed from the courthouse grounds.
Peter Horn III, a Walton County native and homebuilder, asked the commissioners to remove the flag from in front of the courthouse and consider putting it in a cemetery or museum.
The commissioners never made a motion to remove it, so there was no vote.
But, residents still made comments about the confederate flag and monument via zoom and in person for about 45 minutes.
“I’m asking that we remove the Confederate flag flying out there on the courthouse lawn. There’s not a good reason I can see for it to fly there, and there are several good reasons why it should not,” said Horn.
“Those names, there are 98 names on that center staff up there, and those 98 names have a family and have a face,” said Stephen McBroom.
There was a referendum vote to remove the flag in 2018, which did not pass.
