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Geer: Re-seat the Marion Square Commission to restore public trust

Charleston City Paper 10 Feb 2026
Charleston is a city built in layers ... ....
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Editorial: Charleston should use its leverage with Marion Square

Image The Post and Courier 08 Feb 2026
The city of Charleston should use its leverage to press the owners of Marion Square to give the city more say in monuments and other changes to this important public, yet privately owned, space ... .
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Charleston mayor asks for Robert E. Lee marker to be removed from Marion Square

Image The Post and Courier 01 Feb 2026
Charleston Mayor William Cogswell is asking for a roadside marker honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee be moved to a militia’s headquarters on Meeting Street ... .
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A matter of ownership: Lee marker and Marion Square

Free Times 01 Feb 2026
For more than two centuries, Marion Square has figured prominently in Charleston’s civic history ... Runners in the Cooper River Bridge Run go past Marion Square, St ... Marion Square can be seen behind a roadside marker for the Robert E ... Marion Square.
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Hundreds turn out for anti-ICE demonstration in Marion Square, including 2 who police arrested

Image The Post and Courier 26 Jan 2026
People protested across the country after Border Patrol agents fatally shot another U.S. citizen in Minnesota on Jan. 24. One group took to Charleston’s Marion Square to voice dissent on Jan. 25 ... .
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New details emerge after 2 arrested at Marion Square protest released from jail

Image The Post and Courier 26 Jan 2026
New details have emerged after two individuals were arrested during an anti-ICE protest at Marion Square Jan. 25. Both were reportedly Charleston area residents ... .
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Bailey: Caving to Lost Causers at Marion Square only emboldens them

Image The Post and Courier 16 Jan 2026
Columnist Steve Bailey writes that in no universe — even in Charleston, which gave birth to the worst war in the nation’s history — should we be erecting Confederate memorials today ... .
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Protesters of latest ICE violence take to Marion Square

Image The Post and Courier 09 Jan 2026
About 100 people came out Jan. 8 to Marion Square to protest the last violence in ICE operation that left a civilian dead ... .
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Commentary: Charleston’s Marion Square should belong to the public

Image The Post and Courier 30 Dec 2025
State Sen. Ed Sutton calls for Charleston City Council and the mayor to negotiate with militia groups owning Marion Square to bring the 10-acre park under city ownership, given uneven rules there ... .
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Our view: A monumental problem in Marion Square

Charleston City Paper 25 Dec 2025
... Crow-era trouble came crashing down on Charleston’s Marion Square last week.
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Robert E. Lee Confederate memorial finds new home in downtown Charleston’s Marion Square

Image The Post and Courier 19 Dec 2025
A memorial to Confederate General Robert E. Lee has been placed in Charleston’s Marion Square. The memorial had formerly stood a few miles north on King Street before a school asked for its relocation ... .
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Confederate marker materializes at Marion Square

Charleston City Paper 17 Dec 2025
Lee appeared last week without hoopla ...
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