Judge: City can remove 176-year-old slave auction block

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31. IMHO, this is small, but powerful, reminder

of a sad part of our history. The site currently has a National Historic Landmark designation, too.

On the walk to the our pro football field, we walk through a park. There are two memorials we always walk by. One is a memorial to local sailors killed when the USS Maine was destroyed and the other is the remainder of a huge civil war memorial that was built during the Depression and moved to the park to make room for road construction at its former location. Even though we have been past them many times, I never fail to take note of them and think about the history they memorialize.

I personally like seeing these historial markers and stopping to read them when out and about. They kind of bring the past to life for me.