The names of Confederate leaders are being stripped from schools and major highways throughout Virginia.
The Associated Press
In fact the street in McLean, Virginia, not far from the nation's capital, is named for Mottrom Dulany Ball, a captain in the Fairfax cavalry who was among the first Confederate officers taken prisoner in the Civil War. He became a Republican after the war and later a founding father of Alaska. In northern Virginia, the trend began in 2017, several years before the most recent wave of name changes. Fairfax County's former J.E.B. Stuart High School — named after the Confederate general — is now called Justice High.
Fairfax is leaving it up to residents to seek a name change on those streets identified by its history commission. So far, not a single street has come forward with a petition to do so. He said he suspects a majority of county residents oppose naming streets for members of the Confederacy, but that doesn't necessarily translate into wanting to change your own street name. He acknowledged it's a hassle to do so, requiring changing the plats on file with the county and a whole host of address-change notifications a resident must make to all the banks, businesses and utilities with whom they conduct their daily affairs.
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