Editing Allendale, Michigan (section)

==Parks==
[[File:Monument honoring a Confederate Soldier located in the Garden of Honor at the Allendale Community Park..jpg|thumb]]
[[File:Slave_Child_kneeling_at_the_feet_of_a_Confederate_soldier..jpg|thumb]]
Allendale Community Park is a 40-acre park situated near the township office.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Allendale Charter Township Parks and Recreation Plan 2020-2024|url=https://allendale-twp.org/index.php/about/township-information/announcements/804-draft-allendale-parks-and-recreation-plan-2020-2024-1/file|page=10|publisher=Allendale Charter Township|date=December 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=hostmaster|date=2017-03-10|title=Allendale Community Park|url=https://www.michigan.org/property/allendale-community-park|access-date=2020-07-08|website=Michigan|language=en}}</ref> It contains a Veterans Garden of Honor honoring U.S. soldiers. It contains nine statues representing veterans of U.S. wars.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Veterans Garden of Honor - Allendale MI|url=http://www.aaa.com/travelinfo/michigan/allendale/attractions/veterans-garden-of-honor-511608.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=www.aaa.com}}</ref> One of the statues, installed in 1998, depicting a Confederate and Union soldier standing back-to-back with a young slave crouched between them at their feet, has been controversial for seeming to honor the Confederacy.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-01|title=Controversial Civil War statue will remain at township park in West Michigan|url=https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/06/controversial-civil-war-statue-will-remain-at-township-park-in-west-michigan.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=mlive|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-06-27|title=Hundreds gather in Ottawa County to protest Confederate statue in park, demand removal|url=https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2020/06/hundreds-gather-in-ottawa-county-to-protest-confederate-statue-in-park-demand-removal.html|access-date=2020-07-08|website=mlive|language=en}}</ref>
During the [[George Floyd protests]] in 2020, the Allendale Township Board voted on June 30, 2020 to keep it.<ref>{{cite web |title=Allendale Twp. Confederate soldier statue will stay in place |url=https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/allendale-township-confederate-statue-vote/ |website=woodtv.com |date=June 30, 2020 | access-date=July 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702084918/https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/allendale-township-confederate-statue-vote/|archive-date=2020-07-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Allendale leader: Board plans to keep Confederate soldier statue |url=https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/twp-sup-board-plans-to-keep-confederate-soldier-statue/ |website=woodtv.com |date=23 June 2020 |access-date=23 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628163147/https://www.woodtv.com/news/ottawa-county/twp-sup-board-plans-to-keep-confederate-soldier-statue/ |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>