North Charleston’s offer to allow a monument to the signers of South Carolina’s 1860 Ordinance of Secession at Riverfront Park has been withdrawn.

Instead, Mayor Keith Summey said the memorial should go to the H.L. Hunley lab, or to the North Charleston site where the sub’s museum will eventually be built.

A week after offering the S.C. Sons of Confederate Veterans space at Riverfront Park, Summey on Monday squashed the deal, saying it had become too polarizing a subject.

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