- Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection (Georgia Archives)
- Title:
- Stone Mountain, Georgia
- Creator:
- Williams Printing Company
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1979
- Subject:
- Mountains--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Roads--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Parks--Georgia--Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain Memorial State Park (Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Stone Mountain, 33.80816, -84.1702
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Largest exposed granite dome in North America, it lies in DeKalb County, 16 miles east of Atlanta, and is now a Georgia State Park. The mighty monolith rises 850 feet above the plain on which it stands, is two miles long and has a circumference of seven miles. It is estimated to weigh 1 1/2 billion tons. A heroic memorial to the Southern Confederacy, envisioned a generation ago, will be completed at the mountain by the Stone Mountain Memorial Assn.
- Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/postcard/id/509
- Additional Rights Information:
- Postcards published after 1923 may be covered by copyright. The Georgia Archives cannot provide permission to publish.
- Extent:
- Visual image
- Original Collection:
- Historic Postcard Collection, RG 48-2-5, Georgia Archives
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
