It is seen as a reminder of the town's progressive era.
A relic of a progressive era that is finally coming to an end.
In 1948, North Carolina entered a more progressive era of politics.
The outrage against this practice caused many people to take an alternative method to the extreme, and thus set the stage for the progressive era.
The 1890s were a progressive era for the Sokols.
Clinton talks grandly of initiating "a new progressive era in America."
Conservation first became a national issue during the progressive era's conservation movement (1890s - 1920s).
She was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era.
The progressive era in education was part of a larger Progressive Movement, and extended from the 1890s to the 1930s.
This time period is often viewed as one of the most progressive eras of feminist artwork.