Friday, May 19, 2017

Dutchy

" Dutchy" was the first monument made in Elberton in 1898 as the town's Confederate Memorial. The town's people were not happy. They thought he looked too squat and said he looked like a Yankee, "a cross between a Pennsylvania Dutchman and a hippopotamus," thus the name. In 1900 a group of young men, tired of others making fun, pulled him down and buried him in a deep grave. He was exhumed in 1982 and is on display at the Granite Museum in Elberton.
Jim Williamson
There are different versions of this story. I like this one.
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