The National Park Service has ordered that three signs with six quotes that address slavery, immigration and equality, among other topics, be removed from the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown.

Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey posted on social media photos of three signs that he said “Trump’s NPS is trying to erase at the Bunker Hill Monument.” One is from G.B. Stebbins in a letter to William Lloyd Garrison in the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator from 1846 that reads, “As we drew near to Boston, there stood Bunker Hill Monument, towering up toward the heavens, as if in silent, bitter mockery of the millions of slaves guarded by the professed lovers of Liberty, who reared its lofty column.”

Another is a quote attributed to Lucy Stone, editor of the Woman’s Journal from 1889 that says in part, “The woman suffrage battle is like that of Bunker Hill — not won today but sure to be later.”

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The NPS did not respond to an email seeking comment on Saturday. The Boston Globe reported that a spokesperson for the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service, said in a statement, “Efforts to transform a routine exhibit refresh into a story attacking President Trump and this administration is tired, and the American people see through it.”

In a statement posted to X, Gov. Maura Healey said, “The American Revolution began in Massachusetts. So did the abolition movement. And generations of civil rights leaders and immigrant communities have shaped who we are today. President Trump isn’t preserving history. He’s censoring it.”