About the FPG

How we are Involved in the Community

Fame Preservation Group, Inc is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charity organization located in Granite Quarry, NC, which operates as a historical society with the mission of upholding the representation of the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis, in Salisbury, NC within Old Lutheran Cemetery.

The FPG specializes in community outreach, local tourism, educational studies and historical preservation through means of headstone maintenance, erecting historical markers, collaborating with local governments and interacting with other historical societies to fulfill our mission of best capturing all aspects of the Confederate History of Rowan County as Gloria Victis does for future generations.

Get Involved with the FPG and our Mission

Are you passionate about what we're doing? Let us know. We are always looking for volunteers to help us make our vision a reality. We'll help you find a way to volunteer that best suits you. We would love to have you join our mission.

Our organization hosts three major events each year including Fame Fest in April, our Barbecue Festival in August and our Oktoberfest in October as both active ways of interacting with the community and conducting fundraising efforts for installing historical markers and other projects.

We take part in an Adopt a Street program

Fame Preservation Group, Inc and the City of Salisbury have a legally binding contract between our two entities stating that our organization has the right to participate in monthly volunteer cleanups of North Lee Street from the intersections of East Innes Street and Richard and Scales Streets under a two year contract which renews in February of 2025.

The Salisbury Public Works Department provides cleaning materials to our organization and has posted two street signs at each end of our adopted street designating our efforts of conducting civic work in the community. North Lee Street is also the street that the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis, was moved to within Old Lutheran Cemetery.

Thank You to our Advocates and Members

Whether you help through monetary donations, volunteering your time, or spreading our mission through word-of-mouth, thank you. We couldn't accomplish our goals without the help of supporters like you who make a difference at large.

Our Mission of Historical Preservation

The Official Mission Statement of Fame Preservation Group

Fame Preservation Group, Inc is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charity organization which operates as a historical society in Granite Quarry, NC, devoted to preserving and honoring the historical context of Rowan County and its former ties to the Confederate States of America through the representation of the Fame Confederate Monument with means of educational studies, social events and community involvement. As an organization, our associates are to be strictly educational, non-racial, non-political and patriotic in the representation of Fame Preservation Group, Inc and the representation of every Confederate Veteran that we and the Fame Confederate Monument represent through a manner that is intended to be both neutral and open for discussion and debate.

The FPG neither embraces nor advocates towards any ideologies of racial or religious supremacy within our organization and condemns the misuse of any and all Confederate symbolism used in the same manner to promote ideologies that we do not align ourselves with. Each member is expected to perform their full duty as a citizen according to their own conscience and understanding of the law and their Constitutional Rights.

Founded on August 13th, 2019, Fame Preservation Group, Inc was originally established as an advocacy group to attempt to curb efforts being pushed by then-Salisbury Mayor Al Heggins who wished to remove the Fame Confederate Monument from its former location at the intersection of West Innes and Church Streets in Uptown following two acts of vandalism involving the splashing of white paint on the Monument under the cover of the night. She organized and hosted a special city meeting on June 18th, 2019 at the Salisbury Civic Center to discuss the future of the Monument within the City center in an attempt to draw out public opinions of what residents of both the City and County thought should be done to Fame.

That meeting and the outcome that followed inspired our organization to exist. The citizen-soldiers that fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of an American in a free society from the first American Revolution through the thirteen colonies and the second American Revolution through the thirteen States that took part whether universally or by County in a direct means of defiance against governmental tyranny.

The tenacity with which Confederate soldiers fought underscored their belief in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. These attributes are the underpinning of our Republican society and represent the foundation on which the nation was built upon.

Fame Preservation Group, Inc operates in a manner intended to honor and preserve the history and legacy of each and every Confederate Veteran, widow and descendant thereof in order for future generations to understand the motives that led up to the Southern War for Independence.

Although the FPG does not limit our membership to lineage tied to Confederate Veterans, we welcome anyone to volunteer to serve as historical, patriotic individuals dedicated to preserving and protecting everything that Fame represents as we do.

It must be noted that our organization does not own the Fame Confederate Monument that we represent, in actuality, the Robert F. Hoke Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy owns the Monument in question and oversees all dealings with the City of Salisbury and the Historic Salisbury Foundation. As we are a volunteering organization, we offer our full support, maintenance and coverage of the Fame Confederate Monument. As an advocacy group for the cause of preserving the heritage of the Confederacy and the presentation of existing and new Confederate Monuments. Our organization claims responsibility for past protests, propaganda promotionals and boycotts in the supportive manner of informing our politically-motivated opponents that we’re here and we’re not leaving.

The FPG is an inclusive organization based on preservation and preservation only, however we do not take kindly to hatred or violence directed towards our associates through public demonstrations. In the event that the Fame Confederate Monument first came under fire by former Salisbury Mayor Al Heggins, the FPG later organized a band of volunteers who later came to be known as Monument Guards to put boots on the ground in order to protect and defend the Monument from any potential attacks carried out as domestic terrorism.

Today, Fame Preservation Group, Inc is a leading nonprofit in the cause of preserving Confederate heritage and maintaining historical clarification of Confederate Monuments, Statues, Memorials and names attached to streets, buildings and other forms of infrastructure through educational studies, historical contextual reference and community relations.

The FPG has been recognized by Monuments Across Dixie, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the City of Salisbury as a legitimate organization dedicated to our cause of honoring and educating the reason why the Confederate dead of Rowan County were honored with a Confederate Monument on May 10th, 1909. Our Monument Guard is now an Honor Guard which serves as a defensive block and is the first line of defense for all historic sites recognized and protected by the FPG. The Honor Guard oversees civil security and local events.

The Honor Guard has been recognized by other preservationist organizations as a way of civilly defending Confederate Monuments, Cemeteries and Memorials through volunteered security in the event of vandalism or domestic terrorism conducted by political adversaries.

With respective accordance to the City of Salisbury, the Robert F. Hoke Chapter of the UDC and the Historic Salisbury Foundation including independent historians, the FPG is the leading force in representing the Fame Confederate Monument, the Confederate Veterans thereof, the patriotic nature of the Confederacy and the Constitutional integrity of secession through the ideals of the founding rebellious principles that the United States were established upon through the American Revolution and the War for Southern Independence.

Through the preservation of Rowan’s Confederate History by our directive with the cooperation of other organizations and local resources, the FPG devotes itself to operating as a historical society to rightfully educate the public of our rich heritage centralized through the representation of Salisbury’s Angel, the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis.

Support our Mission

Fame Preservation Group, Inc champions itself as an organization that takes extra bounds to ensure that proper historical fact is maintained and provided thoroughly to the public free of revision, political intervention or false interpretation through our educational work.

As a charity organization, we've been granted financial leverage to take in donations with tax deductible contributions thanks to our efforts in becoming a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. However prior to that, our incorporation with the State of North Carolina has upheld bounds and allowed us to grow substantially with representation on a local grassroots level.

The FPG contributes itself as a community driven organization in taking part in local events throughout Rowan County including China Grove's Farmers Day Festival, the Founders Day Festival in Gold Hill and the Faith Fourth of July Parade but also too at our own events like the Summer Barbecue Festival and our annual Truck-or-Treat event at Fame.

Our organization specializes in local tourism, public tours, installing historical markers, preserving existing markers in public spaces and restoring original headstones belonging to Confederate Veterans using old and new cleaning methods to properly preserve them.

With the help of our members, donors, advocates and community leaders, the FPG continues to push for the extra mile in forwarding the Preservationist Movement not only for the upheld representation of the relocated Fame Confederate Monument but also for all other Monuments to the Confederacy and her fallen mena nd women of the War of Northern Aggression and taxation.

We actively invite the community to join us in our work and maintain an active footprint on social media where individuals from all over interact with our platforms on a daily basis.

Through our Adopt a Street program contract with the City of Salisbury and our presence with the Historic Preservation Commission growing in local government, we still seek to maintain our grassroot nature as a group of individuals who banned together to do what others thought wasn't achievable.

We devotedly maintain a relationship with Rowan Rifles Camp #405 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and share membership with their Camp to not only show unity in numbers but to also show compassion for one another as we share a common goal. Whereas the SCV specializes in the generological aspect of the Confederate Soldier, the FPG works through with the historical coverage.

With a coverage area of Old Lutheran Cemetery, Old English Cemetery, Chestnut Hill Cemetery and various others outside of the city limits of Salisbury, we're always busy finding new Veterans, noting restoration projects and making new relationships along the way.

Our end goal as an organization is to obtain private property within Rowan County, preferably near Grants Creek to preserve the location of the Battle of Salisbury from Stoneman's Raid on April 12th, 1865 to best capture the landscape untouched from modernity and a sprawling city that is Salisbury so that we could establish a Memorial Park in honor of those who served in the defense of Salisbury be it soldier, reserve, public figure or private citizen, everyone contributed and it is now our turn to take the next generation there.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at famepreservationgroup@gmail.com for more information.

Does the FPG own the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis?

Fame Preservation Group, Inc, does not own the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis, however the FPG does represent the Monument as a public landmark for historical context.

The Robert F. Hoke Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is the rightful owner of the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis, as well as the owners of the parcel of private property deeded to them within the City-Owned Old Lutheran Cemetery in Salisbury, NC.

Was the Monument on private property before it was relocated?

Despite popular belief, the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis, was not situated on private property at the intersection of North Church and West Innes Streets. In fact, the location was secured between the Robert F. Hoke Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Mayor of Salisbury, Colonel Archibald Henderson Boyden, under a binding agreement between the UDC and the Township to have a Confederate Memorial located downtown.

Unfortunately that binding agreement between that of a Confederate Veteran as Mayor and a genealogical organization wasn't legally viable as private property when the Monument was threatened with relocation and faced with vandalism and domestic terrorism which ultimately resulted in its removal despite State law protecting it because of the loophole of public safety being considered a risk in the factor of violent protests and a large police presence.

Is Fame Preservation Group, Inc, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization?

Fame Preservation Group, Inc, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charity organization. The FPG was formally a State-level nonprofit organization incorporated in Rowan County, North Carolina but is now a federally recognized nonprofit charity organization by the Internal Revenue Service allowing our organization to receive tax deductions on all donations and financial headways.

The exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)3 are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals.

These terms are often used interchangeably, but they all mean different things. Nonprofit means the entity, usually a corporation, is organized for a nonprofit purpose. 501(c)3 means a nonprofit organization that has been recognized by the IRS as being tax-exempt by virtue of its charitable programs.

Does Fame Preservation Group, Inc have a Code of Conduct?

Members and Volunteers are to be strictly educational, non-racial, non-political and patriotic in the representation of the FPG and the representation of every Confederate Veteran that we and the Fame Confederate Monument, Gloria Victis, represent through historical preservation efforts.

Any and all acts of racial supremacy, ethnic cleansing, religious superiority, domestic terrorism, sexual exploitation, harassment, public humiliation, slander or otherwise misrepresentation of Fame Preservation Group, Inc as a historical society will effectively result in termination.

Officers and Volunteers are expected to maintain a sense of integrity for the common good of the organization in having and upholding traditional morality and self-accountability in all things done individually.

We encourage all associates to be objective to societal interactions free from bias or favoritism when representing the FPG during open discussions, public debates or even social disputes.

The General Assembly is expected to maintain a level of Professional Competence in the field individually and during social gatherings, events and deployments giving sound judgment and high-impact decision-making capabilities, always trying to be helpful in any way possible.

Everything done by the organization in regards to operations, communications, project planning, intelligence briefings or anything else related to the Internal Affairs of the FPG and its security is expected to be upheld and maintained by each member under a strict level of confidentiality.

Professional Behavior is a given expectation for members of our historical society in order to maintain the organization’s reputation amongst other historical groups and the general public.

Fame Preservation Group, Inc upholds a culture of Southern Traditionalism with our focus area driven by politeness, kindness, helpfulness, charm and charity as a community organization. As much as any other people, Southerners have a very well developed culture consisting of food, music, art, literature, dance and even manners and mores that differ from the rest of America.

Administered Officers are expected to maintain a good attendance record within the organization for all occasions related to events, committee meetings, commission meetings and special gatherings unless specified with a legitimate reason for not attending.

The FPG seeks to provide an environment for its associates which is driven by our mission and not a mission of another party, therefore in managing all internal conflicts of interest for our organization and those hereof, private interests will be addressed and dealt with.

Officers and Volunteers who are politicians, political candidates or are in political civic groups are asked to refrain from using the FPG to promote said platforms for their own personal gains. This falls under private interests.

General harassment, sexual harassment or discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated within the FPG and will result in immediate termination by authority of the Board of Directors.

If substance abuse becomes an evident issue with any one member, it will be addressed individually by an Administrative Officer after an internal review is conducted where counseling will be encouraged. If this issue is not resolved, it will result in effective termination.

Under these bylaws, Fame Preservation Group, Inc has incorporated a whistleblower policy for associates to understand and use at their discretion in terms of harassment, personal targeting, slander, discrimination, retaliation, sexual misconduct or otherwise anything illegal done by members or volunteers of the organization to justify the immediate investigation and involvement of law enforcement if deemed necessary.

Disciplinary actions that may be taken by our organization by authority of the sitting President, Vice President, Secretary and Board of Directors in violation of the listed bylaws include but are not limited to a verbal warning, a written warning, suspension and effective termination. Associates may be removed from committees, commissions and even the Board of Directors if these bylaws are violated for the betterment of Fame Preservation Group, Inc and its assets.

Associates are subject to the adopted privacy policy stating that all personal information collected by Fame Preservation Group, Inc, including phone numbers, emails, addresses and any other disclosed personal content belonging to any one individual is considered confidential and otherwise cannot and will not be used for anything other than direct contact between members and our administration for newsletters, deployments, events and messaging.

Is the FPG apart of the United Daughters of the Confederacy?

Fame Preservation Group, Inc, as an organization is seperate from the operations of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and their organization, however our organization does offer financial assistance to the local Robert F. Hoke Chapter of the UDC which owns the Fame Confederate Monument.

Is the FPG apart of the Sons of Confederate Veterans?

Fame Preservation Group, Inc, as an organization is seperate from the operations of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and their organization, however our organization does take part in events with the local Rowan Rifles SCV Camp 405 to show our support for our shared cause.