KKK sign could return to Dahlonega building

Owner applying for new permit

People took to the street in Dahlonega on Friday to protest a Ku Klux Klan sign that had been put up on the Jeremiah Payne House sometime Wednesday night and then taken down Thursday.

0218KKK — People took to the street in Dahlonega on Friday to protest a Ku Klux Klan sign that had been put up on the Jeremiah Payne House sometime Wednesday night and then taken down Thursday.

DAHLONEGA — A sign removed from a Dahlonega building featuring Ku Klux Klan imagery could make a return. Dahlonega Mayor Gary McCullough told the Forsyth County News on Friday officials with the building have applied for a new sign after the one depicting a Klansman with an outstretched hand and the words “Historic Ku Klux Klan Meeting Hall” was taken down due to a violation of the city’s sign code. “They don’t have to put what’s on it until they bring it to us to be approved,” McCullough said.