On September 13, 2020, the Fairfax Board of Supervisiors voted to remove the Marr Monument and the historical marker next to the Historic Fairfax Courthouse.
Author’s Note:
On October 5, 2020, author Philip Andrew Hamilton personally visited the Marr Monument after registering to vote in the state of Virginia at the Fairfax City Hall building, down the street from the Historic Fairfax Courthouse.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
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