What happened to the pole that flew the flag?

Here’s a look some of the things that have happend around South Carolina since the Confederate flag was removed from The State House grounds a year ago.

The flag pole remains in storage

On July 10, 2015, the flagpole that held the Confederate flag in front of the State House was transported to the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, according to Lindsey O. Kremlick, policy and public affairs director in the South Carolina Department of Administration. The flagpole is being stored in space owned by the South Carolina State Museum, according to officials with the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Museum.

The flagpole’s future fate is undetermined at this point, those officials say.

Flag hangs in The Citadel chapel

The Confederate flag still hangs in Summerall Chapel at The Citadel, just as it has since 1939. In April, the U.S. House of Representatives rebuffed an effort to force removal of the symbol by cutting off federal dollars to the institution.

The effort, initiated by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., and championed by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-Columbia, would have prevented the Defense Department from giving federal money to ROTC programs at schools that fly the Confederate flag.

The House Armed Services Committee rejected the legislation, even though The Citadel Board of Directors voted last year 9 to 3 to remove the flag after the Charleston shootings. S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley spurned federal intervention in removing the symbol from The Citadel, calling instead for the the issue to be addressed through the state General Assembly.

Greenwood war memorial

A memorial honoring World War I and World War II soldiers in Greenwood County still lists the names of fallen fighters by race – black or white. But that may change, because keeping the memorial intact is under a court challenge.

Local efforts to combine the names of the black slain soldiers with those of the slain white soldiers on the monument have netted $15,000, but leaders now need the state’s blessings.

The memorial, like thousands of others around the state, is ‘protected’ by a law passed in 2000, the S.C. Heritage Act.

But local leaders have filed a lawsuit seeking removal of the restrictions. The complainants allege the state law imposes restrictions on the free speech privileges of local residents to modify their own monuments.

Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster, state Attorney General Alan Wilson and S.C. House Speaker Jay Lucas, R-Hartsville, have asked Circuit Court Judge Frank Addy Jr. to dismiss the case, but Addy so far has not ruled on the motion.

Confederate flags at Fort Sumter

Two Confederate flags and two historical United States flags that long flew over Fort Sumter in Charleston were temporarily removed from the Civil War site last year after the slaying of nine black worshippers inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

They were later re-located to a place inside the fort. The flags were removed from the Fort’s outer wall to the parade grounds inside the Fort.

The flags, which were not protected or controlled by the state Heritage Act, remained down for a couple of months while the U.S. Park Service reviewed the display of the flags at Fort Sumter, where the first shots were fired in the Civil War.

Ben Tillman’s monument at the State House

“Pitchfork” Ben Tillman is memoralized with an 8-foot bronze and granite monument in one of the most visible locations on the State House grounds, right beside the intersection of Gervais Street and Main Street

Benjamin Ryan Tillman was an S.C. governor, U.S. senator, avowed white supremacist and key member of the Red Shirts, a violent group of the late 19th century known for murdering black people after the Civil War.

Buildings at Clemson and Winthrop universities are named for Tillman, who played a key role in creating both institutions. Discussions of changing the name of the buildings at both institutions increased in intensity after the Charleston killings, but both schools say they are at the mercy of the Heritage Act, which says on the General Assembly has the power to change the names.

This story was originally published July 9, 2016 at 1:24 PM.