North Carolina's First Confederate Memorial In 1888, Beaufort
County became the first in the state to erect a monumnet
honoring its Confederate dead. The monument, a replica of a
Confederate soldier placed on a granite pedestal, now stands on
the crest of a hill in Oakdale Cemetery. It was originally
placed on the slight elevation where Water Street turns into
MacNair Street, a location chosen so that ships coming up the
Pamlico River would get, as their first glimpse of the town, the
Confederate soldier on his pedestal. When a new railroad station
was built and railroad activity changed the character of the
location, the town decided to move the statue to the new
cemetery. Location: Oakdale Cemetery, Corner 15th and Market,
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