Public forum to be held on possibility of renaming the Talmadge Bridge (Gordon: camping, area)

[Newsboy]

Originally Posted by LovinDecatur

And if I know you, you'll be crossing it in style one day.

You cross it going to Skidaway Island ... somewhere

[Iconographer]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

You cross it going to Skidaway Island ... somewhere

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[Airforceguy]

Savannah Mayor Eddie DeLoach had proposed a resolution during Thursday’s Savannah City Council meeting in support of the state renaming the Talmadge Bridge. In addition, DeLoach had called on the city staff to find a way to “expand the story” of the Confederate monument to be inclusive of all Savannahians, regardless or race, creed, or color, who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the Civil War.

“While many, including myself, had family members fight and die for the Confederacy, we also had citizens who fought and died to preserve the Union,” he said.

Savannah Mayor calls for amendments to Confederate monument, Talmadge bridge | SavannahNow

[masonbauknight]

The Confederate Monument must be removed from Forsyth Park. No symbols of the defeated secessionist government should be housed on state gov't grounds or in the public square (which Savannah's squares and parks are). Our ancestors -- I am a native southerner whose "great-greats" served the Confederate army at Gettysburg -- were defeated and we reentered as a U.S. state, not a C.S.A. state. Memorials to brave Confederate soldiers belong in cemeteries or on historic battlefields, not elsewhere.

Eugene Talmadge was a Jim Crow political figure and is definitely problematic. Like the big Sidney Lanier Bridge in Brunswick honors a literary figure, the Savannah River bridge might be renamed after Savannah's greatest literary figure, Flannery O'Connor. Just an idea.

[gentlearts]

I'm not invested in the statue thing. But if we start sanitizing history, where will it end? I really see nothing wrong with a southerner being proud of his history and heritage and commemorating the bravery. Can you imagine what strong motivation it must have taken to give your life fighting other Americans? I think there are strong lessons to be learned, and history shouldn't be sanitized for pc reasons. This doesn't mean we don't recognize that errors in judgement were made. If we erase history, aren't we doomed to repeat it?

As far as renaming the bridge. Heck yes.

[SavannahMac]

I learned from the Savannah Morning News, to which I subscribe, that the Georgia Department of Transportation controls the naming of such.

[pink caddy]

Originally Posted by SavannahMac

I learned from the Savannah Morning News, to which I subscribe, that the Georgia Department of Transportation controls the naming of such.

Hold on. These days as you know newspapers don't dig too far on checking facts. They are somewhat correct BUT:




SB 122 - Transportation Bd. - authority to name roads, bridges

[pink caddy]

ETA: See section 2.19 whereby various parts of gov. including Congress can "recommend" a name change. I would suppose TB would not want to put their boxing gloves on that issue. What do think??

[gentlearts]

Next time I see Buddy pulling his grandchildren around in a wagon, I'll tell him my opinion.

[CampingMom]

Well let's face it, when they rebuilt the bridge they spent 70K to rename it and they got the same name. What a bargain. Why not name it after a woman that contributed to the area. Mary Musgrove comes to my mind. Or Juliette Gordon Low. Or the Duryea Bridge. There are plenty of famous people from the area to name it after. Even the Gregg Allman Bridge.