LAKE CITY, Fla. — There's no mistaking what's on the Lake City Seal, whether at City Hall or on city trucks: the Confederate flag.
“On city-owned property that shouldn't be,” said Lake City resident Glynnell Presley.
Presley is a former longtime member of the Lake City chapter of the NAACP. Back in 2012, the group attempted to have the seal changed.
"It bothers me when I have to go to City Hall and I look and I find that flag. The flag has some unsavory moments for me," Presley said.
The seal commemorates the Civil War Battle of Olustee in Lake City. Every year, there is a festival to reenact the fighting.
The welcome center at the Olustee Battlefield State Park, brings past to present the battle that took place in Feb. 1864. It was the only major battle the Confederate Army won in Florida. Nearly 3,000 Confederate and Union soldiers were killed.
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Stephen Witt is the Mayor of Lake City. He said he hasn't heard any complaints.
Action News asked, "If it was up to you, would it stay the same ... or would you remove the Confederate flag?”
“I haven't really made a decision on that," Witt said. "I think it's a community decision on what the seal should be."
But for Presley, history still hits hard.
"To me, the flag represents hate, hatred, slavery," Presley said.
The 40th annual battle of Olustee reenactment is scheduled in early 2016.
The mayor says he's not aware of any other cities in Florida with the Confederate flag in its seal.
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