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Dowling statue will go into storage, not historic site — for now
One of Houston’s two Confederate statues will be stored in a warehouse instead of a Texas historical site — at least for now.
The statue, which depicts Confederate Lt. Richard “Dick” Dowling and stands at the entrance to Hermann Park, initially was slated to go to the Sabine Pass Battleground State Historic Site in Port Arthur as part of a plan Mayor Sylvester Turner announced last week to relocate the two Confederate monuments.
Port Arthur Mayor Thurman Bill Bartie, however, balked at that idea, calling it “totally disrespectful for some society to make a decision for something to be placed here.”
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