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Carved in Stone

2017-03-01T13:04:44Z

Pamenlow:

{{Infobox book
| name = Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain
| author = David B. Freeman
| publisher = Mercer University Press
| pub_date = 1997
| pages = 200
| isbn = 978-0-86554-547-2
| image = [[File:carved in stone freeman.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

Stone Mountain has graced the skyline of Georgia’s piedmont well before man inhabited the region. Carved in Stone chronicles man’s interaction with (and subsequent modification of) the Mountain, beginning with the prehistoric and protohistoric tribes and spanning history up to the creation of Stone Mountain Park by the state and the long-awaited completion of the Confederate monument. Freeman outlines the birth and history of the Stone Mountain Community, describing the budding City as a collection of small farmers (many of whom owned a few slaves) as opposed to sprawling plantation farm. He highlights the role of Stone Mountain in the Civil War, and the development of the granite quarrying industry, briefly describing the evolution of quarrying technology and how Stone Mountain granite was shipped worldwide. These events, while briefly touched upon, are the underpinnings for Freeman’s primary topic of interest: the Stone Mountain Memorial Monument, its proposal and the power struggles that proceeded to delay and derail its construction and completion.

The bulk of the work focuses on the effort to construct the Monument. Proposed in 1914 and finally completed in 1978, the Mountain waited patiently while interested parties formed, schismed and bickered over fundraising, improper management of monies, attempted to pawn the responsibility off on other organizations, several iterations of design and the hiring and firing of multiple sculptors. The monument was proposed by William Terrell and championed by the Atlanta chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Stone Mountain Confederate Monument was originally proposed as a way of honoring the Confederate heroes and dead. It had been noted that the Northern states had spent millions of dollars on memorializing the Union Heroes and victory, but the Southern states had made minimal effort to immortalize their history. Stone Mountain was seen as the ideal canvas for an awe-inspiring tribute to the leaders of the Confederacy. The UDC acted and created a subcommittee, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which eventually fractured away from its parent organization. Freeman discusses the struggles of the Memorial Association to raise funds for the carving of the elaborate monument designed by hired sculptor Gutzon Borglum, highlighting the takeover of the Memorial Association by Hollins Randolph and the unravelling of the project at the onset of his control. Under Randolph, the UDC was ousted from the Memorial Association and the association fell out of favor with the Venable family, who owned the property that the monument was to be constructed on. Things came to a head in 1925 when Borglum was dismissed from his position as sculptor after butting heads with Randolph. For the next 6 years, the Memorial Association struggled to raise funding and replace Borglum, and suffered extreme scrutiny by the local and state governments concerning their mishandling of income. Eventually the association lost all momentum and all powers and the responsibility of producing the monument was handed over to the City of Atlanta, where the project sat nearly dormant for the next 30 years.

Freeman briefly discusses the role of the Klu Klux Klan in growing the idea of the Confederate Monument, but unfortunately, emphasis on their involvement and relationship with the Mountain is downplayed. The KKK was reborn atop Stone Mountain by William Simmons in 1915, almost in tandem with the proposal of the Confederate Monument. The KKK, to this day, view Stone Mountain as a symbol of their organization. Both Venable brothers were members, and even Borglum, an Idaho Territory native, was recruited into their ranks. While the Memorial Association eventually distanced itself from the KKK to avoid controversy, the KKK still found ways to fund the program indirectly; nobody was fooled and their role in nurturing the idea of the Confederate Monument cannot be underplayed. To this day, the KKK still recognizes Stone Mountain as the birthplace of their terrorist organization and holds it sacred. No whitewashing of history can erase that relationship, and Freeman’s inability to fully and openly address the issue in the round causes him to paint a one dimensional picture.

In 1962 the Memorial Project resurfaced after the completion of Stone Mountain Park. The Mountain’s half-carved face had sat untouched for 30 years. The State began to acquire the parcels that made up the Mountain and, upon purchase, began construction of the amusement park and surrounding infrastructure. Conflicts and power struggle over the Monument were now predominantly in the past for the Memorial Association and its interested parties, as many original champions of the Monument were deceased and the State now held control of the property. This allowed for the hiring of a new sculptor, who proposed a design that would complete the second, abandoned iteration of the sculpture. Freeman highlights that, once in government hands, the development of the park and subsequent monument ran fairly smoothly once personal interests had been removed and the Memorial Association was restructured from the ground up.

Questions remain about local Stone Mountainites’ relationship to the Monument. Undoubtedly, the development of the monument and park contributed to the development of Stone Mountain’s tourist industry, but the potential for that industry has stood as long as the Mountain. Did the Mountain need to be altered to draw visitors to view its splendor? Though it is certain that many benefited from the tourist industry, the only story Freeman relays about local opinion on the project is that of the Venables, who owned and leased the Mountain. Little effort is made to consider the views of the stonecutters who worked in the quarries and were recruited to work on the monument, or the day-to-day life of the community surrounding the Mountain and how they played a role in the development of the park. Concerns about developing a natural wonder into a tourist destination and blowing off the natural, sheer face of the mountain are only briefly touched upon, but there is undoubtedly another story to be told about how the locals dealt with the 70-year battle going on in their once-pristine backyard. Little effort is made to connect the population of the Stone Mountain community to the acts of the key players in the development of the Monument, and later the park itself.

[[Category:Nineteenth Century United States]]
[[Category:Twentieth Century United States]]
[[Category:Metro Atlanta]]
[[Category:Confederate Monuments]]
[[Category:David B. Freeman]]

Carved in Stone

2017-03-01T13:02:07Z

Pamenlow:

{{Infobox book
| name = Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain
| author = David B. Freeman
| publisher = Mercer University Press
| pub_date = 1997
| pages = 200
| isbn = 978-0-86554-547-2
| image = [[File:carved in stone freeman.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

Stone Mountain has graced the skyline of Georgia’s piedmont well before man inhabited the region. Carved in Stone chronicles man’s interaction with (and subsequent modification of) the Mountain, beginning with the prehistoric and protohistoric tribes and spanning history up to the creation of Stone Mountain Park by the state and the long-awaited completion of the Confederate monument. Freeman outlines the birth and history of the Stone Mountain Community, describing the budding City as a collection of small farmers (many of whom owned a few slaves) as opposed to sprawling plantation farm. He highlights the role of Stone Mountain in the Civil War, and the development of the granite quarrying industry, briefly describing the evolution of quarrying technology and how Stone Mountain granite was shipped worldwide. These events, while briefly touched upon, are the underpinnings for Freeman’s primary topic of interest: the Stone Mountain Memorial Monument, its proposal and the power struggles that proceeded to delay and derail its construction and completion.

The bulk of the work focuses on the effort to construct the Monument. Proposed in 1914 and finally completed in 1978, the Mountain waited patiently while interested parties formed, schismed and bickered over fundraising, improper management of monies, attempted to pawn the responsibility off on other organizations, several iterations of design and the hiring and firing of multiple sculptors. The monument was proposed by William Terrell and championed by the Atlanta chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Stone Mountain Confederate Monument was originally proposed as a way of honoring the Confederate heroes and dead. It had been noted that the Northern states had spent millions of dollars on memorializing the Union Heroes and victory, but the Southern states had made minimal effort to immortalize their history. Stone Mountain was seen as the ideal canvas for an awe-inspiring tribute to the leaders of the Confederacy. The UDC acted and created a subcommittee, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which eventually fractured away from its parent organization. Freeman discusses the struggles of the Memorial Association to raise funds for the carving of the elaborate monument designed by hired sculptor Gutzon Borglum, highlighting the takeover of the Memorial Association by Hollins Randolph and the unravelling of the project at the onset of his control. Under Randolph, the UDC was ousted from the Memorial Association and the association fell out of favor with the Venable family, who owned the property that the monument was to be constructed on. Things came to a head in 1925 when Borglum was dismissed from his position as sculptor after butting heads with Randolph. For the next 6 years, the Memorial Association struggled to raise funding and replace Borglum, and suffered extreme scrutiny by the local and state governments concerning their mishandling of income. Eventually the association lost all momentum and all powers and the responsibility of producing the monument was handed over to the City of Atlanta, where the project sat nearly dormant for the next 30 years.

Freeman briefly discusses the role of the Klu Klux Klan in growing the idea of the Confederate Monument, but unfortunately, emphasis on their involvement and relationship with the Mountain is downplayed. The KKK was reborn atop Stone Mountain by William Simmons in 1915, almost in tandem with the proposal of the Confederate Monument. The KKK, to this day, view Stone Mountain as a symbol of their organization. Both Venable brothers were members, and even Borglum, an Idaho Territory native, was recruited into their ranks. While the Memorial Association eventually distanced itself from the KKK to avoid controversy, the KKK still found ways to fund the program indirectly; nobody was fooled and their role in nurturing the idea of the Confederate Monument cannot be underplayed. To this day, the KKK still recognizes Stone Mountain as the birthplace of their terrorist organization and holds it sacred. No whitewashing of history can erase that relationship, and Freeman’s inability to fully and openly address the issue in the round causes him to paint a one dimensional picture.

In 1962 the Memorial Project resurfaced after the completion of Stone Mountain Park. The Mountain’s half-carved face had sat untouched for 30 years. The State began to acquire the parcels that made up the Mountain and, upon purchase, began construction of the amusement park and surrounding infrastructure. Conflicts and power struggle over the Monument were now predominantly in the past for the Memorial Association and its interested parties, as many original champions of the Monument were deceased and the State now held control of the property. This allowed for the hiring of a new sculptor, who proposed a design that would complete the second, abandoned iteration of the sculpture. Freeman highlights that, once in government hands, the development of the park and subsequent monument ran fairly smoothly once personal interests had been removed and the Memorial Association was restructured from the ground up.

Questions remain about local Stone Mountainites’ relationship to the Monument. Undoubtedly, the development of the monument and park contributed to the development of Stone Mountain’s tourist industry, but the potential for that industry has stood as long as the Mountain. Did the Mountain need to be altered to draw visitors to view its splendor? Though it is certain that many benefited from the tourist industry, the only story Freeman relays about local opinion on the project is that of the Venables, who owned and leased the Mountain. Little effort is made to consider the views of the stonecutters who worked in the quarries and were recruited to work on the monument, or the day-to-day life of the community surrounding the Mountain and how they played a role in the development of the park. Concerns about developing a natural wonder into a tourist destination and blowing off the natural, sheer face of the mountain are only briefly touched upon, but there is undoubtedly another story to be told about how the locals dealt with the 70-year battle going on in their once-pristine backyard. Little effort is made to connect the population of the Stone Mountain community to the acts of the key players in the development of the Monument, and later the park itself.

[[Category:19th Century History]]
[[Category:20th Century History]]
[[Category:Metro Atlanta]]
[[Category:Confederate History]]
[[Category:David B. Freeman]]

Carved in Stone

2017-03-01T12:59:10Z

Pamenlow:

Carved in Stone

2017-02-20T17:00:53Z

Pamenlow:

{{Infobox book
| name = Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain
| author = David B. Freeman
| publisher = Mercer University Press
| pub_date = 1997
| pages = 200
| isbn = 978-0-86554-547-2
| image = [[File:carved in stone freeman.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

Stone Mountain has graced the skyline of Georgia’s piedmont well before man inhabited the region. Carved in Stone chronicles man’s interaction with (and subsequent modification of) the Mountain, beginning with the prehistoric and protohistoric tribes and spanning history up to the creation of Stone Mountain Park by the state and the long-awaited completion of the Confederate monument. Freeman outlines the birth and history of the Stone Mountain Community, describing the budding City as a collection of small farmers (many of whom owned a few slaves) as opposed to sprawling plantation farm. He highlights the role of Stone Mountain in the Civil War, and the development of the granite quarrying industry, briefly describing the evolution of quarrying technology and how Stone Mountain granite was shipped worldwide. These events, while briefly touched upon, are the underpinnings for Freeman’s primary topic of interest: the Stone Mountain Memorial Monument, its proposal and the power struggles that proceeded to delay and derail its construction and completion.

The bulk of the work focuses on the effort to construct the Monument. Proposed in 1914 and finally completed in 1978, the Mountain waited patiently while interested parties formed, schismed and bickered over fundraising, improper management of monies, attempted to pawn the responsibility off on other organizations, several iterations of design and the hiring and firing of multiple sculptors. The monument was proposed by William Terrell and championed by the Atlanta chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Stone Mountain Confederate Monument was originally proposed as a way of honoring the Confederate heroes and dead. It had been noted that the Northern states had spent millions of dollars on memorializing the Union Heroes and victory, but the Southern states had made minimal effort to immortalize their history. Stone Mountain was seen as the ideal canvas for an awe-inspiring tribute to the leaders of the Confederacy. The UDC acted and created a subcommittee, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which eventually fractured away from it’s parent organization. Freeman discusses the struggles of the Memorial Association to raise funds for the carving of the elaborate monument designed by hired Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, highlighting the takeover of the Memorial Association by Hollins Randolph and the unravelling of the project at the onset of his control. Under Randolph, the UDC was ousted from the Memorial Association and the association fell out of favor with the Vernable family, who owned the property that the monument was to be constructed on. Things came to a head in 1925 when Borglum was dismissed from his position as sculptor after butting heads with Randolph. For the next 6 years, the Memorial Association struggled to raise funding and replace Borglum, and suffered extreme scrutiny by the local and state governments concerning their mishandling of income. Eventually the association lost all momentum and all powers and the responsibility of producing the monument was handed over to the City of Atlanta, where the project sat nearly dormant for the next 30 years.

Freeman briefly discusses the role of the Klu Klux Klan in growing the idea of the Confederate Monument, but unfortunately, emphasis on their involvement and relationship with the Mountain is downplayed. The KKK was reborn atop Stone Mountain by William Simmons in 1915, almost in tandem with the proposal of the Confederate Monument. The KKK, to this day, view Stone Mountain as a symbol of their organization. Both Vernable brothers were members, and even Borglum, an Idaho Territory native, was recruited into their ranks. While the Memorial Association eventually distanced themselves from the KKK to avoid controversy, the KKK still found ways to fund the program indirectly; nobody was fooled and their role in nurturing the idea of the Confederate Monument cannot be underplayed. To this day, the KKK still recognizes Stone Mountain as the birthplace of their terrorist organization and holds it sacred. No whitewashing of history can erase that relationship, and Freeman’s inability to fully and openly address the issue in the round causes him to paint a one dimensional picture.

In 1962 the Memorial Project resurfaced after the completion of Stone Mountain Park. The Mountain’s half-carved face had sat untouched for 30 years. The State began to acquire the parcels that made up the Mountain and, upon purchase, began construction of the amusement park and surrounding infrastructure. Conflicts and power struggle over the Monument were now predominantly behind the organization and its interested parties, as many original champions of the Monument were deceased and the State now held control of the property. This allowed for the hiring of a new sculptor, who proposed a design that would complete the second, abandoned iteration of the sculpture. Freeman highlights that, once in government hands, the development of the park and subsequent monument ran fairly smoothly once personal interests had been removed and the Memorial Association was restructured from the ground up. Questions remain about local Stone Mountainites’ relationship to the Monument. Undoubtedly, the development of the monument and park contributed to the development of Stone Mountain’s tourist industry, but the potential for that industry has stood as long as the Mountain. Did the Mountain need to be altered to draw visitors to view its splendor? Though it is certain that many benefited from the tourist industry, the only story Freeman relays about local opinion on the project is that of the Vernables, who owned and leased the Mountain. Little effort is made to consider the views of the stonecutters who worked in the quarries and were recruited to work on the monument, or the day-to-day life of the community surrounding the Mountain and how they played a role in the development of the park. Concerns about developing a natural wonder into a tourist destination and blowing off the natural, sheer face of the mountain are only briefly touched upon, but there is undoubtedly another story to be told about how the locals dealt with the 70-year battle going on in their once-pristine backyard. Little effort is made to connect the population of the Stone Mountain community to the acts of the key players in the development of the Monument, and later the park itself.

Carved in Stone

2017-02-20T17:00:31Z

Pamenlow:

{{Infobox book
| name = Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain
| author = David B. Freeman
| publisher = Mercer University Press
| pub_date = 1997
| pages = 200
| isbn = 978-0-86554-547-2
| image = [[File:carved in stone freeman.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

Stone Mountain has graced the skyline of Georgia’s piedmont well before man inhabited the region. Carved in Stone chronicles man’s interaction with (and subsequent modification of) the Mountain, beginning with the prehistoric and protohistoric tribes and spanning history up to the creation of Stone Mountain Park by the state and the long-awaited completion of the Confederate monument. Freeman outlines the birth and history of the Stone Mountain Community, describing the budding City as a collection of small farmers (many of whom owned a few slaves) as opposed to sprawling plantation farm. He highlights the role of Stone Mountain in the Civil War, and the development of the granite quarrying industry, briefly describing the evolution of quarrying technology and how Stone Mountain granite was shipped worldwide. These events, while briefly touched upon, are the underpinnings for Freeman’s primary topic of interest: the Stone Mountain Memorial Monument, its proposal and the power struggles that proceeded to delay and derail its construction and completion.

The bulk of the work focuses on the effort to construct the Monument. Proposed in 1914 and finally completed in 1978, the Mountain waited patiently while interested parties formed, schismed and bickered over fundraising, improper management of monies, attempted to pawn the responsibility off on other organizations, several iterations of design and the hiring and firing of multiple sculptors. The monument was proposed by William Terrell and championed by the Atlanta chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Stone Mountain Confederate Monument was originally proposed as a way of honoring the Confederate heroes and dead. It had been noted that the Northern states had spent millions of dollars on memorializing the Union Heroes and victory, but the Southern states had made minimal effort to immortalize their history. Stone Mountain was seen as the ideal canvas for an awe-inspiring tribute to the leaders of the Confederacy. The UDC acted and created a subcommittee, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which eventually fractured away from it’s parent organization. Freeman discusses the struggles of the Memorial Association to raise funds for the carving of the elaborate monument designed by hired Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, highlighting the takeover of the Memorial Association by Hollins Randolph and the unravelling of the project at the onset of his control. Under Randolph, the UDC was ousted from the Memorial Association and the association fell out of favor with the Vernable family, who owned the property that the monument was to be constructed on. Things came to a head in 1925 when Borglum was dismissed from his position as sculptor after butting heads with Randolph. For the next 6 years, the Memorial Association struggled to raise funding and replace Borglum, and suffered extreme scrutiny by the local and state governments concerning their mishandling of income. Eventually the association lost all momentum and all powers and the responsibility of producing the monument was handed over to the City of Atlanta, where the project sat nearly dormant for the next 30 years.

Freeman briefly discusses the role of the Klu Klux Klan in growing the idea of the Confederate Monument, but unfortunately, emphasis on their involvement and relationship with the Mountain is downplayed. The KKK was reborn atop Stone Mountain by William Simmons in 1915, almost in tandem with the proposal of the Confederate Monument. The KKK, to this day, view Stone Mountain as a symbol of their organization. Both Vernable brothers were members, and even Borglum, an Idaho Territory native, was recruited into their ranks. While the Memorial Association eventually distanced themselves from the KKK to avoid controversy, the KKK still found ways to fund the program indirectly; nobody was fooled and their role in nurturing the idea of the Confederate Monument cannot be underplayed. To this day, the KKK still recognizes Stone Mountain as the birthplace of their terrorist organization and holds it sacred. No whitewashing of history can erase that relationship, and Freeman’s inability to fully and openly address the issue in the round causes him to paint a one dimensional picture.

In 1962 the Memorial Project resurfaced after the completion of Stone Mountain Park. The Mountain’s half-carved face had sat untouched for 30 years. The State began to acquire the parcels that made up the Mountain and, upon purchase, began construction of the amusement park and surrounding infrastructure. Conflicts and power struggle over the Monument were now predominantly behind the organization and its interested parties, as many original champions of the Monument were deceased and the State now held control of the property. This allowed for the hiring of a new sculptor, who proposed a design that would complete the second, abandoned iteration of the sculpture. Freeman highlights that, once in government hands, the development of the park and subsequent monument ran fairly smoothly once personal interests had been removed and the Memorial Association was restructured from the ground up.Questions remain about local Stone Mountainites’ relationship to the Monument. Undoubtedly, the development of the monument and park contributed to the development of Stone Mountain’s tourist industry, but the potential for that industry has stood as long as the Mountain. Did the Mountain need to be altered to draw visitors to view its splendor? Though it is certain that many benefited from the tourist industry, the only story Freeman relays about local opinion on the project is that of the Vernables, who owned and leased the Mountain. Little effort is made to consider the views of the stonecutters who worked in the quarries and were recruited to work on the monument, or the day-to-day life of the community surrounding the Mountain and how they played a role in the development of the park. Concerns about developing a natural wonder into a tourist destination and blowing off the natural, sheer face of the mountain are only briefly touched upon, but there is undoubtedly another story to be told about how the locals dealt with the 70-year battle going on in their once-pristine backyard. Little effort is made to connect the population of the Stone Mountain community to the acts of the key players in the development of the Monument, and later the park itself.

Carved in Stone

2017-02-20T13:48:20Z

Pamenlow:

{{Infobox book
| name = Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain
| author = David B. Freeman
| publisher = Mercer University Press
| pub_date = 1997
| pages = 200
| isbn = 978-0-86554-547-2
| image = [[File:carved in stone freeman.jpg|200px|alt=cover]]
}}

Stone mountain has graced the skyline of Georgia’s piedmont well before man inhabited the region. Carved in Stone chronicles man’s interaction with the Mountain, beginning with the prehistoric and protohistoric tribes and spanning history up to the creation of Stone Mountain Park by the state and the long-awaited completion of the Confederate monument. Freeman outlines the birth and history of the Stone Mountain Community, the role of Stone Mountain in the Civil War, and the development of the granite quarrying industry. These events, while briefly touched upon, are the underpinnings for Freeman’s primary topic of interest: the Stone Mountain Memorial Monument, its proposal and the power struggles that proceeded to delay and derail its construction and completion.

The bulk of the work focuses on the effort to construct the Monument. Proposed in 1914 and finally completed in 1978, the Mountain waited patiently while interested parties formed, schismed and bickered over fundraising, improper management of monies, attempted to pawn the responsibility off on other organizations, several iterations of design and the hiring and firing of multiple sculptors. The monument was proposed by William Terrell and championed by the Atlanta chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy. The UDC created a subcommittee, the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, which eventually fractured away from it’s parent organization. Freeman discusses the struggles of the Memorial Association to raise funds for the carving of the elaborate monument designed by hired Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, highlighting the takeover of the Memorial Association by Hollins Randolph and the unravelling of the project at the onset of his control. Under Randolph, the UDC was ousted from the Memorial Association and the association fell out of favor with the Vernable family, who owned the property that the monument was to be constructed on. Things came to a head in 1925 when Borglum was dismissed from his position as sculptor after butting heads with Randolph. For the next 6 years, the Memorial Association struggled to raise funding and replace Borglum, and suffered extreme scrutiny by the local and state governments concerning their mishandling of income. Eventually the association lost all momentum and all powers and the responsibility of producing the monument was handed over to the City of Atlanta, where the project sat nearly dormant for the next 30 years.

Freeman briefly discusses the role of the Klu Klux Klan in growing the idea of the Confederate Monument, but unfortunately, emphasis on their involvement and relationship with the Mountain is downplayed. The KKK was reborn atop Stone Mountain by William Simmons in 1915, almost in tandem with the proposal of the Confederate Monument. The KKK, to this day, view Stone Mountain as a symbol of their organization. Both Vernable brothers were members, and even Borglum, an Idaho Territory native, was recruited into their ranks. While the Memorial Association eventually distanced themselves from the KKK to avoid controversy, the KKK still found ways to fund the program indirectly; nobody was fooled and their role in nurturing the idea of the Confederate Monument cannot be underplayed. To this day, the KKK still recognizes Stone Mountain as the birthplace of their terrorist organization and holds it sacred. No whitewashing of history can erase that relationship, and Freeman’s inability to fully and openly address the issue in the round causes him to paint a one dimensional picture.

In 1962 the Memorial Project resurfaced after the completion of Stone Mountain Park. The Mountain’s half-carved face had sat untouched for 30 years. The State began to acquire the parcels that made up the Mountain and, upon purchase, began construction of the amusement park and surrounding infrastructure. Conflicts and power struggle over the Monument were now predominantly behind the organization and its interested parties, as many original champions of the Monument were deceased and the State now held control of the property. This allowed for the hiring of a new sculptor, who proposed a design that would complete the second, abandoned iteration of the sculpture.

Questions remain about local Stone Mountainites’ relationship to the Monument. Undoubtedly, the development of the monument and park contributed to the development of Stone Mountain’s tourist industry, but the potential for that industry has stood as long as the Mountain. Concerns about developing a natural wonder into a tourist destination and blowing off the natural, sheer face of the mountain are only briefly touched upon, but there must be another story to be told about how the locals dealt with the 70-year battle going on in their once-pristine backyard.

Carved in Stone

2017-02-19T23:35:38Z

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2017-02-19T23:33:40Z

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Nineteeth Century United States

2017-02-19T23:08:25Z

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==Book Summaries==
* Philip S. Klein. [[President James Buchanan| President James Buchanan: A Biography]] (1962).
* Menahem Blondheim. [[News over the Wires|News over the Wires: The Telegraph and the Flow of Public Information in America, 1844-1897]] (1994).
* Paul Boyer. [[Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920]] (1992).
* Amy Bridges. [[A City in the Republic|A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics]] (2008).
* Francis G. Couvares. [[The Remaking of Pittsburgh|The Remaking of Pittsburgh: Class and Culture in an Industrializing City 1877-1919]] (1984).
* Albert Bricker. [[Democracy of Soundz|Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century]]
* Robin L. Einhorn. [[Property Rules|Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872]] (2001).
* Philip J. Ethington. [[The Public City|The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900]] (2001).
* Ann Fabian. [[Card Sharps and Bucket Shops|Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America]] (1999).
* Eric Foner. [[Reconstruction|Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877]] (2002).
* David B. Freeman. [[Carved in Stone|Carved in Stone: The History of Stone Mountain]] (1997).
* Gary Gallagher and Alan Nolan (ed). [[The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History|The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History]] (2000).
* Eugene D. Genovese. [[Roll, Jordan, Roll|Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made]] (1976).
* Paul Gilroy [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/the-modern-paul-gilroy-modernity-transnationalism-and-the-impact-of-the-black-atlantic-on-history/ The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness] (1993).
* Steven Hahn. [[A Nation under Our Feet|A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration]] (2005).
* Harper-Ho, V. [[Noncitizen Voting Rights|Noncitizen Voting Rights: The History, the Law and Current Prospects for Change]]. Immigr. & Nat’lity L. Rev., 21, 477. (2000).
* Steven Hertzberg. [[Strangers Within the Gate City|Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845-1915]] (1978).
* Thomas R. Hietala. [[Manifest Design|Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire]] (2002).
* Richard Hofstadter. [[The American Political Tradition|The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it]] (1989).
* Richard Hofstadter.[[Social Darwinism in American Thought]] (1992).
* John R. Hornady.[[Atlanta, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow]] (1922).
* Amy Kaplan.[[The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture]] (2005).
* Larry D. Kramer, [[The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review]] (2004).
* Drew R. McCoy. [[The Elusive Republic|The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America]] (1996).
* Pearson, R. [[Towards an Historical Model of Services Innovation|Towards an Historical Model of Services Innovation: The Case of the Insurance Industry, 1700–1914]]. The Economic History Review, 50(2) , 235–256. (1997).
* Wallace Putnam Reed. [[History of Atlanta, Georgia|History of Atlanta, Georgia: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers]] (2011).
* Heather Cox Richardson. [[The Death of Reconstruction|The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901]] (2004).
* Daniel T. Rodgers. [[Contested Truths|Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence]] (1998).
* Mary P. Ryan. [[Women in Public|Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880]] (1992).
* Allison L. Sneider. [[Suffragists in an Imperial Age|Suffragists in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929]] (2008).
* Christine Stansell. [[City of Women|City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860]] (1987).
* Jr, Sam Bass Warner. [[The Private City|The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth]] (1987).
* Sean Wilentz. [[Chants Democratic|Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850, 20th Anniversary Edition]] (1984).
* T. Harry Williams.[[Lincoln and His Generals]] (1952).
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* Wendy Hamand Venet. [[A Changing Wind|A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta]] (2014).
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