STONE MOUNTAIN 



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STONE MOUNTAIN 



outer circle, which consisted of thirty stones, be- 

 ing 100 feet in diameter. Forty smaller stones 

 made up the inner circle. Within these circles 

 were two other sets of stones, one row within 

 the other and each forming a horseshoe with 



stone, and of two others placed on a line with 

 it, seem to indicate that they were used to de- 

 termine the time of the summer solstice. Most 

 authorities think, from this, that Stonehenge 

 was connected with the worship of the sun. 



PLAN OF STONEHENGE 

 At the left, as the stones originally stood ; at 

 right, as they now lie, strewn about by the hand 

 of time. 



the opening toward the northeast. Near the 

 central curve of the inner horseshoe, and across 

 a northeast-southwest axis line, was the so- 

 called altar stone, a flat block of blue marble 

 fifteen feet in length. The arrangement of this 



STONEHENGE TO-DAY 



One scientist, by calculating the day on which 

 the midsummer sun rose exactly on a line with 

 the axis of the structure, figured that Stone- 

 henge was erected in 1680 B. c. It is supposed 

 that the structure was also used as a temple 

 for consecrating the dead. 



STONE MOUN- 

 TAIN, a huge, 

 rounded mass of light 

 gray, practically un- 

 blemished granite, 

 about an hour's ride 

 by automobile north- 

 east of Atlanta, Ga. 

 It is 800 feet high and 

 1,500 feet long. This 

 great mound is to be 

 transformed into a 

 permanent memorial 

 of the heroic struggle of the South during the 

 War of Secession, by means of the most colos- 

 sal piece of sculpturing ever undertaken. It is 

 planned to chisel across its stony face, in bold 

 relief, the figures of about 1,200 men, represent- 

 ing the army of the Confederacy. The figures 

 will be between forty and fifty feet in height, 

 and when the work is completed it will seem to 



THE CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL, 

 Above is a view of Stone Mountain. Beneath is 

 a specimen of the carving. Mounted officers and 

 foot soldiers will be carved in relief almost the 

 entire length of the pile of granite, and will in- 

 clude recognizable images of all the great leaders 

 of the Confederacy, both civil and military. 



the onlooker that an 

 army of men, some 

 mounted and some on 

 foot, are marching 

 across the face of the 

 mountain. The plans 

 call for lifelike repre- 

 sentations of Lee, 

 Stonewall Jackson and 

 many others of the 

 great Southern lead- 

 ers. It is also planned 

 to have a park sur- 

 rounding the memorial, with paths and roads 

 so arranged as to afford visitors effective posi- 

 tions from which to view the "army in gray." 



The financial part of the undertaking is in 

 charge of the Stone Mountain Confederate 

 Memorial Association, at the head of which i.s 

 the honorary president of the United Daugh- 

 ters of the Confederacy. Funds are being col- 



