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In 1912 the Florida division of the United Confederate Veterans voted to ask each Confederate veteran to contribute $5 (equivalent to $134 in 2020) to fund a monument to the Confederacy's women, "who were the heroines of that struggle".

The monument was designed in 1914 by sculptor Allen George Newman (1875–1940), and dedicated on October 26, 1915. 

Jno. Williams, Inc. served as the founder, and McNeel Marble Works served as the work's contractor. 

In May 2018, the monument was cited among those targeted by the March for Change, a three-day, 40-mile (64-km) protest against Confederate monuments located in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida. 

It is No. 10 on the Make It Right Project's list of Confederate memorials it wants to see removed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%27s_Tribute_to_the_Women_of_the_Confederacy

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A Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy, Confederate Park, Jacksonville. Confederate Park, Jacksonville. This monument is dedicated to the women who remained behind and shouldered the burden of raising their families and working for the cause of independence by themselves. Keep in mind when contemplating that statement that “raising a family” and “working” and even bearing a “burden” meant carried a vastly different connotation from what those words mean today. There was no indoor running water, no electric appliances, no laundromats, no welfare benefits, no grocery stores with microwavable food, no McDonalds to stop at on their way home and no pizza delivery, there was nothing and no one to help them to survive consequently many of them did not. They worked from before dawn to after dark engaged during the whole day in the task of providing and surviving.   Artist/Sculptor Allen G. Newman designed and created the monument, he named the statue in the rotunda "The Woman of the Southland", and modelled the piece after Greek temples which housed their deities to imply a reverence for the Women of the Southern Confederacy. The monument was unveiled 1915 and of course given the tenor of the revisionist times we live in is under fire and will eventually be destroyed.

A Tribute to the Women of the Southern Confederacy, Confederate Park, Jacksonville.

A short video showing the Memorial to the Women of the Confederacy in Confederate Park, Jacksonville, FL. Shot using a GoPro Hero3 Black on a dji Phantom quadcopter. Shot at 1080p/60fps, Wide FOV.

Florida's Tribute to the Women of the Confederacy