Demopolis, Alabama

Demopolis is the largest city in Marengo County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 7,162. It is the birthplace of A. G. Gaston, a successful black businessman and financial supporter of the American civil rights movement.

Confederate park: in the renamed "Confederate Park" in 1923 at the request of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. A Confederate soldier statue was erected (put up) in 1910 at the intersection of North Main Avenue and West Capital Street across from the Park. It was destroyed on July 16, 2016, when a policeman accidentally crashed his patrol car into the monument. The statue fell from its base and was heavily damaged. In 2017, Demopolis city government voted 3–2 to move the damaged Confederate statue to a local museum and to install a new obelisk memorial that honors both the Union and the Confederate soldiers.

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Category:Cities in Alabama
Category:1817 establishments in the United States