Duluth's Lynching Memorial Becomes a Local Landmark

DULUTH - Late Monday evening, the Duluth City Council unanimously made the decision to put the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial in downtown Duluth on the list of local landmarks.

The Heritage Preservation Commission will now recognize the lynching memorial as a historical landmark within the city, and called it an interracial part of the historical district of downtown Duluth.

Reaching that status would create a preservation plan for the memorial, and would also allow for funding to fix it if it ever gets destroyed.

Other local landmarks in the area are the Lift Bridge, the old City Hall, and the Duluth Public Library.

The CJM Memorial is the first memorial to be on the list of local landmarks in Duluth.