Confederate monument will be gone from Forest Park by Friday under new agreement

ST. LOUIS • The controversial Confederate Monument in Forest Park will be removed by the end of the week under an agreement announced Monday.

In a settlement between St. Louis and the Missouri Civil War Museum, the museum agrees to remove the massive marker by the end of the day Friday — and perhaps much more quickly. Workers began rapidly deconstructing the monument Monday, shortly after the settlement was announced.

The museum will foot the bill for the move, and agreed to store the monument until a permanent new location is found for it. That permanent location must be at a Civil War museum, battlefield or cemetery, the agreement says.

The museum also agrees not to display the monument in the city of St. Louis or St. Louis County.

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