Stone Mountain - Wikipedia
Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, 15 miles (24 km) east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is the city of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The park is the most visited tourist site in the state of …
Confederate Imagery On Stone Mountain Is Changing, But Not Fast ... - NPR
2021年6月21日 · The 90-foot carving on the side of Stone Mountain in Georgia is the largest Confederate monument in the world. As the U.S. undergoes racial reckoning, the monument's future remains in doubt.
Memorial Carving - Stone Mountain Park
The largest high relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving, depicts three Confederate figures of the Civil War, President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. The entire carved surface measures three-acres, larger than a football field and Mount Rushmore.
Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain - Atlanta …
Atlanta History Center explores the controversial history of the Stone Mountain carving through a documentary film and online resources. The carving on the side of Stone Mountain is the largest Confederate monument in the world.
Changes are coming to the nation’s largest Confederate monument…
2021年5月30日 · Changes announced last week at Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, home to the nation’s largest Confederate monument, are “the boldest step that has been taken” at the park since the state bought it...
Stone Mountain - New Georgia Encyclopedia
2004年5月25日 · Located in DeKalb County about ten miles northeast of downtown Atlanta, Stone Mountain is the largest exposed mass of granite in the world. Now a recreational site featuring a carving of Confederate icons, the mountain attracts millions of visitors every year and no small amount of controversy.
What Will Happen to Stone Mountain, America’s Largest …
2017年8月22日 · Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial features General Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis—and has stirred up controversy in Georgia for years. Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy
Stone Mountain: Carving Fact from Fiction - Atlanta History Center
2022年11月18日 · Stone Mountain—the world’s largest exposed granite outcrop—is a natural wonder turned Confederate monument. By Georgia state law, the entire park is designated as a memorial to the Confederacy. The effort to create a Confederate monument on Stone Mountain began in the 1910s.
Stone Mountain: A Monument to Terror — History Connects Us
2021年9月27日 · Near the center of DeKalb County, 16 miles east of Atlanta, sits the largest Confederate monument in the world. Stone Mountain, Georgia, is home to a 90-foot granite face carving of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Stone Mountain, Georgia - Smarthistory
Stone Mountain, Georgia by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker Perhaps the largest relief sculpture in the world, this Confederate memorial is an expression of 20th and 21st century racial politics.