Focus on Dutchy (statue) and discuss the History.
Elberton, Georgia, is a city in north Georgia that is nicknamed the "Granite Capital of the World" due to its granite production. In the late 1890s, residents of the city, wanting to promote both their granite industry and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, commissioned the creation of a Confederate monument. This was during a time when many other cities and towns in the Southern United States were erecting monuments and memorials to the Confederate States of America.Sculptor Arthur Beter was commissioned to create the monument. Little is known about Beter, except that he was an immigrant to the United States, possibly from either Germany or Italy. The granite for the statue was donated by Nathanael Long, a local doctor and businessman, at the request of the Women's Confederate Memorial Society.
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