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In 1893, Decoration Day Services in Barnesville were organized and managed by the former Union veterans who were members of the fraternal organization Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.). The Women’s Relief Corps was the associated auxiliary organization supporting the G.A.R.
In those days, a procession of marchers, often followed by school children, departed downtown Barnesville traveling to the town’s two major cemeteries – Green Mount (now Northern) and Southern. After services at each, the marchers returned downtown for a program that in 1893 was in the lodge’s meeting room located at 102 West Main Street. In other years, the program was held in Moore’s Opera House at the present site of the Barnesville Fire and EMS station.
Today, while there are no longer parades to the cemeteries, the downtown still hosts a memorial service. It takes place Monday at 11 a.m. at Veterans Plaza at the corner of Main and Arch streets.
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