A controversial 2.4-ton road marker honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee appeared last week without hoopla at Marion Square on King Street, surprising some history buffs around Charleston.
“It draws more attention to itself by not being discussed than it is if discussed,” said historian Harlan Greene, who chairs the city’s Commission on History. Changes at the park, managed by the city but not owned by it, generally are communicated to the commission, such as the recent addition of a Medal of Honor plaque, he said.
But not this time, which another commission member said really wasn’t needed because the marker, originally donated by the city in 1947, was just a few blocks north along another part of King Street that stretches across the South as the Lee Highway…