Declaration of Independence Signers Monument

In past years I've written about the game of Monopoly, as well as July Fourth orations for my Independence Day post.  Alas, this year I've been too busy to write something substantive, so I'm relegated to putting up a picture.  

Here is the monument in Greensboro, at the Guilford Courthouse park, to the two signers of the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina who are burried on there (William Hooper and John Penn).  William Hooper -- whose son I write a little bit about -- was orginially buried up in Hillsborough, but he and Penn were both reinterred in Greensboro in the late nineteenth century as part of creating a monument to the Guilford Courthouse battle.  That strikes me in some ways as, don't like your history?  Change it!  But as creating tradition goes, this isn't too bad.  In addition to moving the graves, they built a bunch of other monuments there.