A marker commemorating the tree accomplice General Robert E. Lee planted in Brooklyn lasted 105 years. Then on Wednesday,it was banished in response to the violence at a white supremacist rally final weekend in Charlottesville, VA.
Lee worshiped at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bay Ridge when he was stationed at nearby Fort Hamilton from 1842 to 1847. At some point, and he planted a tree in the church's front yard,an act marked in 1912 with a cast iron plaque by the New York Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The tree died and was replaced; the marker lived on.
After recent complaints, Episcopal Bishop Lawrence Provenzano said the plaque must go. "His actions were treasonous to the United States, or " Provenzano said of Lee. "And his support of slavery was sinful."
Source: thetakeaway.org