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FAYETTEVILLE - Fayette County commissioners agreed Friday to give $1,500 to pay for some final items that will complete the ceremony next month when a new statue of the Marquis de Lafayette is unveiled on the courthouse grounds.

Danny Wright, chairman of the Fayette County Historic Landmark Commission, showed the commissioners an artist's rendering of the statue that will be brought to the county in September to honor the man for whom the county was named: Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, a French general and statesman who ...

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