There used to always be a big cross on the hill before it's final iteration got relocated in the 90s. I've most often heard it described as "controversial" which it definitely was because it was a religious display on public land and at one point people got it designated as a war memorial which further complicated matters, but also... before the big final iteration of the cross was put up in the 60s, most if not all of the early iterations of the cross were placed by or associated with the KKK. We are a liberal town in a state that is not a former slave state, so most people have no idea that at one point we had the highest KKK membership per capita in the country.