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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.
Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain - Atlanta …
Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain. The carving on the side of Stone Mountain is the largest Confederate monument in the world. The mountain is engraved with a sculpture of well-known people from the Confederacy: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate states, and generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
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...
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.
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.
Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain - YouTube
Atlanta History Center explores the controversial history of the Stone Mountain carving through online resources and a documentary film.Learn more at https:/...
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.
The truth about Stone Mountain’s giant Confederate memorial
2023年1月12日 · Lee and Stonewall Jackson—the Confederacy’s president and two top generals—stretches over three acres of elevated rock face. As “Monument”, a new documentary made by the Atlanta History Centre, an innovative museum, makes clear, the carving’s history is as dramatic as its size.
Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial - Clio
2024年6月4日 · The Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial is the largest of many monuments meant to memorialize the Lost Cause narrative by glorifying Confederate leaders. The idea for this memorial dates back to the early 1900s and construction began in 1923.