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Lake Culpeper replaces Confederate's name on town reservoir

CULPEPER — The Culpeper Town Council voted 5-4 Tuesday night remove the name of a Confederate artillery officer as the label for its main reservoir, Lake Pelham. ....

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Panel suggests new name for Culpeper reservoir named for Confederate officer

BY ALLISON BROPHY CHAMPION
Culpeper Star-Exponent
After a brief, calm discussion on what has been a divisive topic of Confederate history, a Town Council committee on Wednesday recommended Lake Culpeper as the new name for the municipal reservoir.
The innocuous name would replace one more controversial: Lake Pelham, which the body of water was named in 1975 for a Confederate artillery officer who died in Culpeper.
Maj. John Pelham (1838-1863) was from Alabama, but had a girlfriend in Culpeper, so he perished in the town of an artillery wound suffered 158 years ago during the Battle of Kellyâs Ford. That American Civil War history is well-documented at various sites tied to Pelham in the town and county. ....

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