page_title: List of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina
section_title: Courthouse monuments
hierarchical_section_title: List of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina / Monuments / Courthouse monuments
caption_attribution_description: English: Rutherford County Courthouse, Rutherfordton, North Carolina, on North Main Street, U.S. Route 221. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 79001749
context_page_description: Note: This is a sublist of List of Confederate monuments and memorials from the North Carolina section.
  This is a list of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina that were established as public displays and symbols of the Confederate States of America, Confederate leaders, or Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. Part of the commemoration of the American Civil War, these symbols include monuments and statues, flags, holidays and other observances, and the names of schools, roads, parks, bridges, counties, cities, lakes, dams, military bases, and other public works.
  This list does not include items which are largely historic in nature such as historic markers or battlefield parks if they were not established to honor the Confederacy. Nor does it include figures connected with the origins of the Civil War or white supremacy, but not with the Confederacy.
  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there are at least 140 public spaces with Confederate monuments in North Carolina.
  Governor Roy Cooper "has called for the removal of monuments honoring Confederate soldiers and generals", including the Chapel Hill Silent Sam statue.
context_section_description: Albemarle: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1925)
  Asheville:
  Zebulon Baird Vance Monument, a granite obelisk erected in 1896. Near the obelisk, a small granite marker memorializes the Dixie Highway, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, and Col. John Connally, a Confederate officer who was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. Near the Buncombe County Courthouse entrance, a smaller obelisk memorializes Confederate soldiers from Buncombe County who fought at Chickamauga and in other Civil War battles. The monument was vandalized in August 2017 and 4 individuals out of 30–40 protesters were arrested for trying to remove it with crowbars.
  Monument to 60th Regiment North Carolina Volunteers (1905)
  Memorial plaque to Lieutenant William Henry Hardy (1930), "the First Soldier from Buncombe County to Fall in the War Between The States"
  Bakersville: Mitchell County's Confederate Dead Monument (2011) commemorates 79 men "who died for their freedom and independence. And not for slavery."
  Beaufort: Carteret County Confederate Soldiers Monument (1926) at the Carteret County Courthouse. "TO THE MEMORY OF THE CONFEDERATE DEAD  OF CARTERET COUNTY 1861-1865 ERECTED BY THE DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY FORT MACON CHAPTER BEAUFORT, N.C. 1926 NOT EVEN TIME CAN DESTROY HEROISM" 
  Burgaw: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1914)
  Burnsville: Confederate Soldiers Monument (2009)
  Clinton: Monument removed July 12, 2020. Confederate Soldiers Monument (1916). "In honor of the Confederate soldiers of Sampson County who bore the flag of a nation's trust and fell in a cause though lost still just and died for me and you."
  Columbia: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1902); "In appreciation of our faithful slaves"
  Concord: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1892) at Old Cabarrus County Courthouse
  Currituck: Confederate Soldiers Monument "To Our Confederate Dead 1861–1865" (1918)
  Dallas: Gaston County Confederate Soldier Monument (2003)
  Danbury: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1990)
  Dobson: Confederate Soldiers Monument (2000)
  Elizabeth City: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1911)
  Gastonia: Confederate Soldiers Monument, Gaston County Courthouse, dedicated November 21, 1912
  Graham: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1914), Alamance County Courthouse. Demonstrators called for its removal in 2017, and the matter was discussed at an Alamance County Commission meeting.
  Greenville: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1914)
  Hendersonville: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1905)
  Hertford: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1912)
  Laurinburg: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1912), sponsored by UDC. "The Scotland County monument has been moved several times in the years since first being placed. Originally it sat in the middle of the road in front of the courthouse at Main and Church streets. It was then moved onto the grounds of the courthouse after becoming a traffic hazard. When the new courthouse was completed in the 1960s, the monument moved with it and was placed in its current location.... [T]he inside contains time capsules."
  Lincolnton: Confederate Soldiers Memorial Drinking Fountain (1911)
  Louisburg: The Confederate Memorial Drinking Fountain (1923) is dedicated to North Carolinian Orren Randolph Smith, who designed the Stars and Bars, the first official flag of the Confederacy. It is five feet high, six feet across, and has separate "white" and "colored" drinking fountains. A similar marker is in Wilson, North Carolina (below).
  Lumberton: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1907)
  Marion: Veterans Memorial
  Morganton: Confederate Soldiers Monument at Old Courthouse (1918)
  Newton: Catawba County Confederate Soldiers Monument (1907), Old Catawba County Courthouse
  Oxford: the Granville Gray- originally dedicated directly in front of the Granville County Courthouse it was moved to the local library after the 1970 protests following the murder of Henry Marrow.
  Plymouth: Battle of Plymouth monument (1928) at Washington County Courthouse
  Roxboro:
  Confederate Monument (1931)
  Confederate Soldiers Monument, Person County Courthouse, erected in 1922, UDC.
  Rutherfordton: Confederate Soldiers Monument (1910)
  Shelby:
caption: Monument at Rutherford County Courthouse
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