A tall wooden flagpole in Blakely's courthouse square was erected in 1861 during the Civil War and has survived into the present landscape. Its endurance makes it an unusual physical relic of the war era rather than a later commemorative monument.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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