[Bellingham Washington]
City officials on Friday removed signs identifying Pickett Bridge at Prospect and Dupont streets, as well as directional signs leading to The Pickett House.
Officials said the move was in light of last Saturday’s violent clash in Charlottesville, Va. between a group identified as white supremacists and counter-protesters.
The City Council requested staff on Monday to look into the possible renaming of the Pickett Bridge, in coordination with the Historical Preservation Commission and other local stakeholders, according to a news release. After the discussion, signs identifying the Pickett Bridge were covered on Thursday, but the coverings were ultimately ripped down, Mayor Kelli Linville said.
Capt. George E. Pickett was a U.S. Army officer who built Fort Bellingham in the 1850s and supervised construction of the first bridge across Whatcom Creek. He left the area in 1861 to fight for his home state of Virginia in the Civil War – Pickett later became a general in the Confederate States Army.
The Pickett House, at 910 Bancroft St., is on private property and is managed by The Daughters of the American Revolution, so the city has no control over what happens to it, Linville said.
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